There are a few navigation webcontrols in DotNetNuke framework. The most common type today that many are using for their sites is dnnMENU.

I think you're refering to switching from SolPartMenu to dnnMENU.

Here's the solution.

You need to specify the provider that you want it to render as followed:

1. Open your skin.ascx file and locate your navigation
2. Add this attribute to the navigation: ProviderName="DNNMenuNavigationProvider"

Hope this helps!

The default skins for example "DNN-Blue" have the menu/navigational element as "<dnn:NAV  ID="dnnNAV" />" and i want to switch to "<dnn:DNNMenu id="NavMenu" />" as with the example at: http://webcontrols.dotnetnuke.com/samples/MenuHorizontalSub.aspx - primarily to get greater control over the look and also to use the horizontal subnav.

I have tried adding in the "DNNMenuNavigationProvider" - however this yields the same result -- no errors, however no menu items either...so something else must be missing.  my full reference is:

<dnn:DNNMenu id="NavMenu"
            TreeScriptPath="js/"
            DefaultNodeCssClassSelected="NavSelClass"
            DefaultNodeCssClassOver="NavHoverClass"
            DefaultNodeCssClass="NavRootNode"
            DefaultChildNodeCssClass="NavChildNodeDefault"
            rootarrowimage="Images/icon_arrow_right-sm.gif"
            childarrowimage="Images/icon_arrow_right-sm.gif"
            SystemImagesPath="Images/"
            MenuBarCssClass="NavMenuBarClass"
            MenuCssClass="NavMenuClass"
            runat="server"
            DefaultIconCssClass="NavIconDefault"
            SubMenuOrientation="Horizontal"
            UseTables="true"
            />

Thanks again for any help.