I copied the line...
__extra_top_menu__
from...
_sub_header.html
to...
navigation_menu.html
both files in are templates/tmpl_my_template, not templates/base. This has allowed me to place the member controls inside the main menu block.
I also changed a load of CSS classes. After quite some time I discovered that when items are clicked in the menu the drop-down appears and then disappears straight away, sometimes it will stay but rarely. I have been undoing changes for hours but try as I might I can't find where I caused the problem. I would think this is a java issue but I haven't touched any js files other than when I applied the fix for the date of birth selection for Chrome which I've tried undoing and wasn't the cause.
Any ideas?
P.S. I don't want to paste a link because it's in a dev sub directory and I don't want the search engines to find it.