Problem with Menu, Spry Effects and PHP

im trying to accomplish this using spryeffects with onClick actions

i meant mouse actions

Ok, let me explain a bit more.

I have a menu that each word has a thumb besides it,

i wanted it to appear as 30% so what i did is "body onLoad triggers the menu fade to 30%"

when mouse rolls over i want it to fade in to 100% opacity

and when its rolls out/isnt on top it fades back to 30%

Problem im having is,

when mouse rolls over it fades from 30 inside the already faded to 30 to 100% wich is the outer 30. get it?

so theyre never brighter than 30, plus it kinds of blinks sometimes?

I was trying to use the if function in php, but i cant seem to get it working i dont  understand how i could implement it.

Or what could be the what to do it, how id type it. I tried a few things that obviosuly did not work, deleted them.

maybe you guys think a better approach to do this?

Or how could i do with the approach i am trying?

if you look at the code, do you see something funny that shouldnt be there or that way?

what am i missing here?

I thank you all in advance!