How to make default menu state collapsed?

I have removed the module all together due to functionality issues.

for instance, i had turned one of my vocabularies into a menu using taxonomy menus module. which basically adds a menu with the rest of the menus ie.primary, secondary ... category

by default, in the menu settings, i had it's default state collapsed.
i pin-pointed the issue down to this:

whenever i had a body class of "front" it would be expanded, no matter what settings i tinkered with.
whenever the body class was "not-front" it would function properly and remain in the state it was on the previous page..

dhtml menu provides some cookies that remember the state of the menu when you navigate away to another page containing that menu, and when the new page loads, the menu remains in the state you left it. This only worked when the body class of the page was "not-front"

if you navigated to a page with a class of "front" it would always be expanded, regardless of the state it was on the previous page.

I just wanted the menu to be collapsed by default on the home page. no matter what, it would always be expanded. getting in the way of other thing.

second issue: using advanced taxonomy blocks and quick tabs (my alternative to the drop down dhtml menu)
i have a quick tab block, one of the tabs being my advance taxonomy block, and in it, obviously a list of terms.

dhtml turned those terms into parents (which i did not want) resulting in an arrow that pointed downward when u click on the term (as if it is dropping down a menu) which wasn't visible.

so i disabled that particular menu in the dhtml menu settings, hoping that when u clicked on the term, it would bring you to that page. instead of dropping down an invisible menu. but DIDNT work. dhtml just didnt listen

so i had anough and disabled dhtml menu altogether. my terms are links now, not parents.