title: Drop down menu not working in Magento when using jQuery slider
body: <p>I have a problem with getting dropdown menu to appear in Magento when using jQuery slider on home page. (displays normally on all other pages)</p>
  
  <p>I'm very much new to all this but from what i understand its clashing with Magentos Prototype library. But so far any guides i was able to find online haven't fixed the issue. </p>
  
  <p>I'm using the google hosted version when importing scripts, and i import them in the HTML body so they only load on the front page where they are needed. </p>
  
  <p>I have already tried adding <code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
      jQuery.noConflict();
  &lt;/script&gt;</code> to head.phtml or in the actual script, replacing the $ with jQuery, self hosting it and adding <code>&lt;action method="addItem"&gt;&lt;type&gt;skin_js&lt;/type&gt;&lt;name&gt;js/jquery.js&lt;/name&gt;&lt;/action&gt;</code> in the page.xml layout file...</p>
  
  <p>... and everything i've done so far hasn't worked. It either didn't fix the navigation or it fixed the navigation but crashed the slider.</p>
  
  <p>Any clues? Thanks in advance for the help.</p>