Remove the required path links from menu items that have sub menu items

Hi,

I am running into the problem of:
when I create a menu item that acts as a place holder for sub menu items, I must provide a path url for it. I need to disable such link.
I searched through the offered solutions, and the ones that are offered for Drupal 6 (my version), require code modification to the template.php.
I am running a chameleon theme, which does not have a template.php file. I tried regular search + utlra edit search and both return no result (which does not make sense), for the function that needs to be edited.
I already posted a note on (http://drupal.org/node/143322) but did not get any answer, probably because it looks hidden in the long list of comments / posts.
One more thing that I tried out (for testing): I went into the menu module and set the required field for the path from TRUE to FALSE, and commented out the error message that appeared, this erased the whole menu item from the list.

Please advise.
Thanks