s2k,
Maybe this is not the answere to your question, but there are possibilities to do stuff like this without hardcoding the menu.
I use housemenu for it and I don't have to hardcode anything (and the admin link apears in the menu).
Set housemenu to show both icon and the pagename.
Create an image that contains the up state on top and the down state at the bottom of the image
like this:

Use this image as the page icon
Lets say this image is 64 px high.
Make the <LI> containing the image 32px high and set overflow to hidden
On a:hover, set the image's margin-top to -32px and the down button will be visible.
The advantage is that both the image and the text in the link are rendered and google will see the text link.

Example CSS:

#mainmenu li
	{
	position:relative;
        width:267px;
	height:32px;
	overflow:hidden;
	list-style-type:none;
	}

#mainmenu a img

{
	position:relative;
	display:block;
	border-style:none;
	}

#mainmenu a:hover img
	{
	position:absolute;
	left:0px;
	margin-top:-32px;
	}	

You can see an example here, or here the menu on the left(I'm still working on it, it's not finished...)

I've been doing skinning for three +  years and that is the first time I've seen that code..

That was a gem.  Boy do I wish I had that a couple of years ago!

Nina Meiers