RESOLVED: module/tag etc for Image and text nav!?!?!?!

[streever]

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I found a NON IDEAL but still pretty good solution, in a post by Nils, which is to use the "Node" and just make "id=NODE" addition to the menu template..... Thank you Mark for your help, and Nils!!!!
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Help!

I am building a hybrid menu.

the menu headers, the main pages, are images. the sub-pages are text.

the client can add sub-pages but can not change the main pages. makes sense?

however, i want all the pages in the CMS! so they can add new sub pages (with text links in the menu...) but the parent pages have clickable images.

is there an image replacement/etc for CMSMS that can be used, or just an option to put images into the menu field of the page? that would be the easiest. the client is computer-savvy and won't be modifying them if I tell him not to. Right now, I try to insert images, but even with literal tags, the CMS parses out the characters into the proper character..... and is no longer html.

thanks for any help

ADDED:

okay so what i would do
given free reign
is make it so i can set a custom class for each menu text,
then i would just it insert a background image with css

but this doesn't seem possible

any ideas on how to add a custom class?

[streever]

OK, so i decided, image replacement is the way to go.

but

i am stuck on the custom id/class thing.

i have a good image replacement javascript (i am choosing javascript over hacky css...) which i found at http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/fir.html.

however, it needs a "hook".... they use ids.

maybe i could just add a pre-fix to the menu word? and have it grab that? but that is beyond me... I'm not sure it is even possible.

anyone have a clue?

[cyberman]

Have you read this?

http://themes.cmsmadesimple.org/Image_menu.html

[streever]

yes, i hae, actually! i didn't realize so at first. thank you though.... more good karma passed out!!!