thanks everyone
@Domino - I don't know if I can put a shadow under my clouds, because they are not symbols... it's just an effect, using smooth colored polygons and a blurring tool. But I do understand what you are saying, and I will see if I can tweak it a bit.
@ GreasonWolf - Unfortunately, there isn't much I can do about that. The trees poking under the map border surrounding my map, will be hidden by a screen once I'm done... but the ones that are over my little map section border, I can't hide with a screen. What I may be able to do, is increase the size of the section borders, and put my symbols underneath them, but I dont' know if I can make the section borders big enough to hide the tree limbs, I will have to check on that. But thanks for the suggestion!