ok, i figured out what the problem is. when a menu item has a text description it pops up and overlaps the menu item below, then when you move down to the next menu item, the next menu item is highlighted before the description is removed so that when the text description from the item above is removed it leaves a "hole" in the currently highlighted menu item. so... erase text description first, then move the highlight to the next menu item, then display that items text description. Cheers, Eric.