Thank you for the hint, dug!

This works perfectly fine.

Peter

Thanks.  This post made my day!  I have spent hours trying to get submenus with different font sizes and colors (the background setting always worked in manumenu_sumbenu but I could never get the fonts to change.

to handle  mouseovers properly on the submenu , the following also needs to be added.
CSS
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.MainMenu_Submenu .MainMenu_MenuItemSel
 {
    color: #FFF;
    font: normal normal 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma;
    otherselector: other property;
}
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