Expanded menus don't stay expanded

I'm having this problem too.

Hi. Sorry not to post a proper patch but I'm still very much a newbie. The problem comes from a theme override function in template.php. The code for this function was adapted from the nice_menus module and doesn't take into account menus set to be always expanded.

Here is a fix that works:

I added these lines:

function phptemplate_menu_tree($pid=1) {
  // Code adapted from the nice_menus module
  // generates nested <ul> <li> lists
  $menu = menu_get_menu($pid);
  $output = '';
  if ($menu['visible'][$pid]['children']) {
    foreach ($menu['visible'][$pid]['children'] as $mid) {
      // Check whether the menu type is set; if so, assign it to $type; if not set $type to NULL
      $type = isset($menu['visible'][$mid]['type']) ? $menu['visible'][$mid]['type'] : NULL;
      if (count($menu['visible'][$mid]['children']) > 0) {
        $output.= "<li>".menu_item_link($mid);
        // Check if the menu item is in the active trail OR if the menu type is "always expanded"
        if ((menu_in_active_trail($mid)) || ($type & MENU_EXPANDED)) { // only output children if they should be seen
          $output.= "<ul>";
          $tmp = phptemplate_menu_tree($mid);
          $output.= $tmp;
          $output.= "</ul>";
        }
        $output.= "</li>";
      }
      else {
        $output.= "<li>".menu_item_link($mid)."</li>";
      }
    }
  }
  return $output;
}

I'm only 5 days into Drupal and on v. 5 - but isn't this handled by dhtml_menu-5.x-0.7.tar?