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Well I am just over the moon. Gave it one last shot and I now have it working!

So for those of you that have 4.0.19 and want a menu like this:

CatA (link)
SubCat1 (link)
SubCat2 (link)

CatB (link)
CatC (link)

- The CURRENT category AND subcategory will be in bold
- The categories will still be in the default menu.tpl. (the code is based on awasson's menu mod..his div layer caused my head.tpl to repeat)
- Looks fine in Firefox and Internet Explorer

Here's my categories.tpl:

{capture name=menu}
{if $active_modules.Fancy_Categories ne ""}
  {include file="modules/Fancy_Categories/categories.tpl"}
  {assign var="fc_cellpadding" value="0"}
{else}
  {if $config.General.root_categories eq "Y"}

    {foreach from=$categories item=c}
___________________________<br><br>
      
{if $cat eq $c.categoryid || $current_category.parentid eq $c.categoryid}
        <font class="ProductMain"><b><a class="current" href="home.php?cat={$c.categoryid}">{$c.category}</a></b></font><br>
      {else}
       <font class="ProductMain"><a href="home.php?cat={$c.categoryid}">{$c.category}</a></font><br>
      {/if}
      {assign var=in value=$c.categoryid}
      {* CONDITIONAL DROP DOWN ITEMS FROM TOP CATEGORY *}
      {if $current_category.parentid eq $c.categoryid || $cat eq $c.categoryid} 
        {foreach from=$allsubcategories.$in item=c }
          {if $cat eq $c.categoryid}
           &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp<font class="ProductSub"><b><a class="current" href="home.php?cat={$c.categoryid}">{$c.category}</a></b></font><br>
          {else}
            &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp<font class="ProductSub"><a href="home.php?cat={$c.categoryid}">{$c.category}</a></font>    <br>
          {/if}
        {/foreach}
      {/if} 
      {* /CONDITIONAL *}
    {/foreach}
  {else} 
    {foreach from=$subcategories item=c key=catid}
     <a href="home.php?cat={$catid}">{$c.category}</a>
    {/foreach}
  {/if}

{/if}
{/capture}
{ include file="menu.tpl" dingbats="dingbats_categorie.gif" menu_title=$lng.lbl_categories menu_content=$smarty.capture.menu cellpadding=$fc_cellpadding}

then I added these classes to skin1.css:

.ProductMain {
    FONT-SIZE: 12px;
}

.ProductSub {
    FONT-SIZE: 10px;
}

I am really new to editing code so sorry if it's messy... would appreciate any constructive criticism.