How to print one specific menu item?

I'm trying to style a menu with the primary links horizontal, but each menu-item goes in a different (graphical) tab, so i can't just create a horizontal list. I also have only 5 tabs, so no matter how many menu items are created, only the first 5 should be put in those tabs and the remaining should appear on another part of the page (or not at all, if that is easier).

I think i can get it to work by just putting 'menu item 1' in the div for tab 1, 'menu item 2' in the div for tab 2, etc., but i can't split up these menu items. All i can find is how to print an array of all the menu items, but nothing about printing just one, specific menu item from that array.

How do i do that? Or is there another, better solution?