It seems like a simple task - change the link, hover and active properties of the root items on the main dnnmenu.

I've located the ".main_dnnMenu" section of skins.css and seem to be able to effect every attribute of a root item EXCEPT the stupid link colors!!

I don't consider myself a CSS god by any means, but this seems like some closely-held mystery only the "inner circle" can understand.

Please HELP!

Thanks for your response Jon.

I am using the DNNMenu.

I finally solved the issue, but I'm not entirely pleased with what I had to do. To me, this seems like a weakness in the implementation of the control and/or something was missed in the release I am on. 

In the CSS there are several classes provided:

.main_dnnmenu_rootitem {}
.main_dnnmenu_rootitem TD {}
.main_dnnmenu_rootitemhover {}

What I discovered, only by digging into the html output source, is that the DNN Menu does not output an actual anchor tag (<a>), nor does it use TD.  Instead it uses "<span>" to contain the properties for the main menu links.

So, I added .main_dnnmenu_rootitem span {} to the CSS and was able to set the properties.

You are correct.  DNN only outputs the data necessary to render the menu as the data is much smaller than the data + markup.  As mentioned, a tool like FireBug in firefox works well to determine the actual markup.