Theme not applicable on all list items

Not sure if this was intentional but in the lucid_menu_tree function if the item has children, the item is built using:

while items without children are built using the theming option:

So if you try to override theme_lucid_menu_item the changes will only be applied to items that have no children. I made the change (to use theme_lucid_menu_item($pid); for parent items) in the module for my work (no sure how to create a patch...still new to drupal). So if this is intentional then ignore this bug...otherwise spare future users hours of frustration trying to override the item function and change accordingly.