Using Views to display a taxonomy tag in a Panels page setup?

Hello,

I am a new Drupal user trying to get a hang of this powerful cms to build our employee intranet from, great progress however I cannot wrap my head around this issue...

Please follow along, here is what I have done:

1) I have a Taxonomy setup with a few tags, which is basically from a file content type I use to upload files and tag them.

2) Used the taxonomy_menu module to transfer the tags to a "menu" that I have created, this menu uses the "DHTML Menu" module to give it a "folder tree" type of structure, which looks great when you insert it on a page.

3) Created a "view" to display the taxonomy term results, with a "Context: Has taxonomy term ID" so that the view can be used to display the content for the tag.

3) I have used the taxonomy_display module to be able to pass the taxonomy term ID to the view.

4) Using Panels I have created a "/qc-ops" page, in there I have the desired layout setup which includes the taxonomy menu and the view.

The issue is, when i go to the "/qc-ops" page, and click on a menu link, it sends me to the taxonomy page, which displays in the view I created above.. navigating off the Panels page. I am trying to contain everything in the Panels page so that I have a nice page structure with the menu on the left, and the view on the right...

Here is a screenshot of my panels page: screenshot
Here is a screenshot of the taxonomy views page: screenshot
Here is a screenshot of my views settings page: screenshot

Been at this for a few hours, but I cannot seem to figure out why the links are going to a different page, I want this to be contained in the panels page I created and have the view there change.. is this at all possible?