--- menutrails.module.1.0	2009-11-10 00:27:09.000000000 +0100
+++ menutrails.module	2009-11-10 00:30:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -50,6 +50,17 @@ function menutrails_init() {
       }
     }
   }
+
+  // Allow Menu Trails to set the active menu and breadcrumb 
+  // if the node_view is overwritten by the Panels module
+  if (module_exists('panels') && 'node' == arg(0) && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
+    // Get the node object and just call menutrails_nodeapi() 
+    // to get Menu Trails do its node related stuff
+    $node = node_load(arg(1));
+    if (FALSE !== $node) {
+      menutrails_nodeapi($node, 'view', NULL, TRUE);
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 /**