[Typo3] Can I replicate this menu behaviour?

[Gwilym Evans]

Trying to learn Typo3 here, so far it's looking good
 
Just wondering if anyone can suggest a way for me to replicate the menus
I've made on a site previously; please see
http://www.terracottem.com.au/ (IE6/Moz tested only)

* I'm trying to get the colouring/rollover effects happening in a menu
powered by TMENU_LAYERS

* The closest I can get to it so far is by using RO_chBgColor, which is
fine for when you roll over the link, but is no good for having the
whole menu item change background colour (plus text colour too).

* Note that clicking on the table cell has the same effect as clicking
on the text itself, it navigates.

I can see how it could be done by wrapping the links in a table
structure and adding some javascript to handle the style changes when
rolling over a table cell, however, this has issues with colours
'flickering' on and off when you progress from mousing over the table
cell, to the link itself. This also leaves the problem of clicking on
the cell area itself to navigate.

I've also tried converting it to a set of GMENUs but cannot get it to
suitably render aliased text using 8pt Verdana so that it looks exactly
like the other text on the site.

Advice greatly appreciated! Our basic in-house cms is starting to
struggle with some of the client sites we're putting forth these days
and typo looks suitable to replace it, or some of them atleast.