Hi,

I think I have sorted it by looking through the forum at other posts and solutions
I found this post:
http://www.silverstripe.org/template-questions/show/251612#post251612

and finally I used the following, hopefully correct:

	<ul id="topmenu" class="sf-menu sf-navbar">
<% control Menu(1) %>

<li <% if LinkOrSection = section %>class="current"<% end_if %>><a href="$Link" >$MenuTitle</a> 

<% if Children %> 
<% if URLSegment != what-s-new %>


<ul> 
<% control Children %> 
<li><a class="$LinkingMode" href="$Link" title="Go to the {$Title} page">$MenuTitle</a></li> 
<% end_control %> 
</ul> 
<% end_if %> 
<% end_if %> 
      </li> 
   <% end_control %> 
</ul>

Thank you very much for all your help NickJacobs, I really appreciate it.

I thought I had completed the problem with the navigation, however it seems the hidden children don't show a blank dropdown on parent hover. Therefore confusing the user. is there a fix for this? or would this be a superfish issue?

I see this on this site: http://aucklandringcompany.co.nz/brooches/
built by NickJacobs. It seems that if no children, no blank subnav is shown, however just repeats the navigation selected.

Any ideas on how to show a blank subnav?