Hi jeewun,
I finally came up with a simple solution, but it does'nt allow for "fly out" menus like Solpart has. My solution was to clone the core "links" skin object, renaming it mLinks and modifying the code to require that the link displayed be BOTH hidden AND disabled to display in the menu. That leaves me free to use Solpart for the rest, displaying only the "normal" pages and thier children
This in effect allows me to still "hide" any pages I want to hide by only marking them "hidden" in the page settings. I can still use "disabled" in the main menu as well and the link will show up as a normal disabled link with child pages in the "fly out" part of the sub menu.
Then I changed the skin.css file by adding copying all of the a.Links coding and making a "clone" a.mLinks which allows me to set the new mLinks skin object to display like a normal horizontal menu with the same background, hover and other attributes set to match the Solpart menu.
All of this gives me, in effect, two menus on the same page that have identical formatting look and feel but no flyout in the horizontal menu.
By doing it this way, if i decide I only want a horizonta., or I only want a vertical menu, I can simply "stack" the mLinks reference in front the Solpart reference to give me a completely horizontal menu. Conversely, if I need to use only a vertical menu, I do the same and mark both Display="Vertical" and I have it with a very, very simple change to the skin and ONE .css file.
If you would like to see the code, post your email address and I'll mail the skin object to you and the .css coding to insert in yout skin.css file to match.
Clay