Hi Packrat
Sorry for not responding to your post earlier - this last month or so has been very difficult for me in the world of DNN!! (Not on my own it seems after reading a few posts)
I had a look at the documentation provided with the controls and it doesn't have any new classes that control the root level, so it's possible they share some common elements in areas like that.
I did struggle somewhat with the sub menu behaviour, so in the free skin that was all I felt confident in providing since I dind't want to open up a can of worms in an area I'm also still learning and working with.
From my understanding the DNNMenu is in fact the new set of controls using the nav.ascx and is in fact different to the solpartmenu.ascx functionality. There may be some elements of the js that are used, but the controls are different in how they work. Also I think it was the start of true menu separation allowing for easier third party menu options, which has been a something planned for a while.
There are not alot of sites using this menu - I think we haven't quite flushed out all the bugs that run with it. Having said that, I will have more information in the very near future as we work on the documentation further and provide some examples.
But I was under the impression that the menu was in fact not related at all to the solpart menu, however, some functions that require true/false and root, child, same, parent or 0 levels would be the same by nature of what they are.
Sorry I can't be clearer, I'm also running behind in my work at the moment and it's been a challenging couple of months. I will make every effort to get more clear information online with some examples as soon as humanly possible.
Thanks and thankyou for taking the time to comment and ask questions, it helps me work out what I need to be looking out for.
Nina Meiers