Posted a similar thread recently, but I've pinpointed my needs a bit more now.

I'm looking for a solution for this:
taxonomy-menu-concept.png

I've gone deep into Drupal native features and also explored the following modules:

Taxonomy Menu
Taxonomy Menus
Ubercart Catalog Taxonomy Menu
Taxonomy Menu Trails
Advanced Taxomony Menu
Taxonomy Blocks
Submenu Tree
Menu Tree

All those modules are great but all they do is exactly what you expect: A tree menu of vocab but with little control over the menu in general.

All they do is output parents and children and parent links are to listings of children. Logically it all makes sense but is not what I need, which is dynamic taxonomy-based menu links to be generated within some regular menu links which are not related by taxonomy. A MIXED MENU you might call it?

I have a feeling my path is going to be one of these options:
A-Keep manually maintaining my potentially-large menu, item by item: no dynamic anything. yeesh.
B-Wait for Drupal 7 and see what's new?
C-Create some custom PHP and/or my-own-module, to pull this off. Where would I start?

I'm just re-attempting to find some help on this.

CHEERS