HTML_Menu - Problem with external links

After an awful lot of fiddling about I've discovered how to get the menu to find the active link as well as ensure that it appends the correct path to the links: eg: 1 Home index.htm 2 Services services/index.htm 21 Services|Domains services/domains.htm 3 My Blog http://mungbeans.typepad.com/pear 4 About about.htm I've used this code (or something pretty near to it without getting too detailed): $CURR_HOST = http://pear.mungbeans.com.au/; $CURR_DOC = "services/index.htm"; $menu =& new HTML_Menu($menudata); $menu->setURLPrefix($CURR_HOST); $menu->forceCurrentUrl($CURR_HOST . $CURR_DOC); I needed the $menu->setURLPrefix($CURR_HOST) to ensure that the correct directory structure was adhered to. Without this the menu url is just appended to the current directory (eg.: all the menus for documents in the services directory show the path http://pear.mungbeans.com.au/services as a prefix) which throws all the menu items out. The setURLPrefix works well in this case except for external URLs. In the above example the menu item http://mungbeans.typepad.com/pear is rendered as http://pear.mungbeans.com.au/http://mungbeans.typepad.com/pear. Does this mean I can't use external links in HTML_Menu menus? Leonie