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I don't know if this is possible, so I thought I'd ask you guys. 

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Take a look at the bulleted item list toward the bottom of the page, specifically the City of Columbus Water Meter Pits.  You see the 1.5", 2", 3", etc.?  My client would like each of those dimensions on their own submenu item in the navigation (they will all fly out to the right from their dropdown submenu parent - does that make sense?).  So, technically, they would each go to their own individual page.  BUT, my client would like for them, instead, to lead to ONE page that has each of those items on it.  The one page will be similar to this in set-up.

I hope I'm not confusing you too much.    Do you know if this is possible within the cms?

Hopefully your client isn't thinking of having more than one flyout type menu on the page as in a horiz. and vertical both, it will work in Firefox and other standards compliant browsers just not in IE6, tried it every which way...

Ok if they want them all to point to a page, that looks like a good candidate for news items use, you will need to make the pages first, with the option not shown in menu, then make Content Type: internal link to point to that page, you can have as many internal links pointing to the same page as you want, and put them under the parent you want them to fly out from...

If you show a menu structure you want it will help...

Thanks for your reply.  The way the navigation will work is you will hover over the main parent and a dropdown of submenu items will appear (just as happens now).  Then once we start building the other pages, as you hover over those submenu items, sub-submenu items will flyout to the right.  Does that make sense?  Those sub-submenu items will be the ones where 2-4 of them might all need to point to the same page.  So, I would make those sub-submenu items be Content Type: internal link... ?

I really don't understand where news items comes into this, though.

Yes that's it...

The page you linked to, showing the diff. items on one page, all those had a [Details] link, those are like News articles, meaning you could use the News module to make those, not that I know how you plan one showing your products...

assumption: one 'product details' page for a group of related items. this page will list numerous items; you want each item on that page to have its own menu entry; and all those entries will point to the same 'product details page'.....

1. create page for 'product details', drop ID's on headings or containers so we can use anchor links to point the menu items directly to the relevant part of the page. e.g. or

2. hide the above page from menu.. or leave visible and maybe use it as the parent page of the child menu items we'll create next....

3. create new pages (well, items actually), set parent accordingly, use *external link* content type. for URL, use the full URL+anchortext for each entry.. e.g. http://yourdomain.com/product-details#uniqueanchortext

Interesting.  Thanks to both of you for your input and ideas.  I will think on this and let you know what I come up with.