[taltos1]

Hello,
I am very close to finishing the design of my store, but a few things are eluding me. I would like to replace the side cart modules name (Categories, Your Cart, Manufacturers etc) from the actual text to an image. Now, I know that menu.tpl controls how all the side blocks look and each ind. module is also controlled by their respective .tpl. I was able to add images where I want them by editing each respective .tpl and then commenting out
{* $menu_title *} in menu.tpl, but then I also lost the side block text in the Admin area.

What I would like to know is if I can edit the menu.tpl so I can make it call images instead of text with the { $menu_title } is there is an image, but if not then just draw the normal text? Is this possible? Am I making it more complicated then it needs to be?

Thanks so much.