Question 1: How do use a "hover image" on the "root item" while I am "hovering over a sub menu item"?

Question 2: How do I make the "selected sub menu item" the same height as the "hovered sub menu item"?

Here is my css code:

.easyMenu
{
    padding:14px 0px 14px 0px;
    font-family:Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica;
    font-size: 12px;
    cursor: pointer;
    white-space: nowrap;
    float:left;
    font-weight:bold;
    /* ADD SEPERATOR BEFORE FIRST ROOT TAB */
    /* background: url(blue/menu-mid.gif) left top no-repeat; */
}

.easyMenu .root
{   
    color:#000; border: 1px solid transparent;
    /*set an unused color to be index color*/
    _border-color:tomato;
    /*For IE6-*/ /*then remove this indexed color*/
    _filter:chroma(color=tomato);/*For IE6-*/
    padding:10px 18px 10px 18px;
    background: url(blue/menu-mid.gif) right top no-repeat;
}

.easyMenu .hov
{ 
    background-image:url(blue/blue-menu-mid.jpg);
    background-repeat:repeat-x;
    background-position:center;
    color:#fff;
    border: 1px solid #005cc3;
}

.easyMenu .sel, .easyMenu .bc
{
    background-image:url(blue/blue-menu-mid.jpg);
    background-repeat:repeat-x;
    background-position:center;
    color:#fff;
    border: 1px solid #005cc3;
}

.easyMenu .m
{
    border:1px solid #ccc;
    background-color: #3f9bf7;
    background-image: url(blue/blue-submenu.jpg);
    background-repeat: repeat-x;
    background-position: left bottom;
}
.easyMenu .m
{
    line-height:2em;
}

.easyMenu .m td
{
    z-index: 1000;
    font-size: 11px;
    text-align:left;
    color:#fff;
    font-weight:normal;
    line-height:2em;
    padding: 0px 2px;
    margin:0px;
    background: none;
    border:0px;
}

.easyMenu .m .hov td 
{ 
    color:#ffffff;
    background: none  #025dbc;
}

.easyMenu .m .sel td
{
    color:#ffffff;
    background: none  #025dbc;
}

.easyMenu .break
{
    height: 2px;
    background-color: #D5E0FF;
}

 

Thanks Peter. Thats what I originally thought but after a bit of playing this worked for question 2:

.easyMenu .mi
{
    height:20px;
}
 

Any one have any ideas about question 1?