I suppose you're going to say tables are the way to go? Tables are bad practice. They render differently in IE and FF and Opera. They are TERRIBLE with screen readers, which is a huge part of the company(It being a Blind Non Profit). And they are slower to load than CSS pages.

I might try that. I'll see how it will work. A reason I don't want that is because then I need to split up the menus.

Actually... I could just do two. Split it in half and have the background of the left portion be the gradient image set to the left and the right div set to the right.