You weren't closing a lot of your li tags and your submenu was just sort off flying off its container. Cleaned up your code and made too many modifications to list here.
http://purecssmenu.com/ Might help you out. Try downloading a list and taking a look at it. Deleting all the extra tags you have and take everything back to a basic list like this.
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