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Here's another (easier) way to approach this:

The static pages display via the file, pages_menu.tpl

WHAT IF you were to constrain the pages displayed by ID within the template?

For example, to limit to only pages with orderby ID > 900, add this line after the loop:

{if $pages_menu[pg].orderby > 900}

(and the obvious {/if} where needed)

So, you could constrain the static pages to a range of orderby IDs, then insert a clone of pages_menu.tpl and constrain to the orderby ID range desired.

Don't know if this is the most elegant or efficient use of code, but it's clearly simple.

Hope this helps.

Jeremy