For anyone that might be looking in to this issue:

I still cannot find the IGERsoft folks for a 4.x upgrade. There is a substitution that I found that works well. It is Inventua Side Menu. Look on that site under 'Skinning examples' - the first one they give the link text is black. I changed it as follows for my needs by adding this code to the bottom of my skin.css file. You can change 'green' to whatever you need.

Thanks,

Will Sugg
www.planetmaine.net

/* SideMenu  */

.MenuHdr
{
  font-size: 10pt; padding-left: 10px; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 2px;
  background-color: #ffffff; padding-top: 2px; cursor: default;
}
.MenuItem HR
{
  color: #549254;
  text-decoration: none;
  background-color: #ffffff;
  border-top: none;
  border-left: none;
  border-right: none;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #999999;  
  margin-right: 5px;
}

.MenuItemMouseOver
{
  background-position: right top;
  background-image: url(images/menuarrow-bg.gif);
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  border: #00008B 1px solid;
  background-color: #cccccc !important; 
}

.MenuItem, .MenuItemMouseOver
{
  font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px;
  background-color: #fffff; padding-top: 1px;
  border: #ffffff 1px solid;
}
.MenuHdr A, .MenuHdr A:Active, .MenuHdr A:Hover, .MenuHdr A:Visited, .MenuHdr A:Link
{
  text-decoration: none; color: greeb; padding-top: 1px;
  padding-bottom: 1px; cursor: pointer; display: block;
}
.MenuItem A, .MenuItem A:Active, .MenuItem A:Hover, .MenuItem A:Visited, .MenuItem A:Link,
.MenuItemMouseOver A, .MenuItemMouseOver A:Active, .MenuItemMouseOver A:Hover,
.MenuItemMouseOver A:Visited, .MenuItemMouseOver A:Link
{
  display: block;
  padding-left: 20px;
  padding-bottom: 1px;
  cursor: pointer;
  color: green;
  padding-top: 1px;
  text-decoration: none;  
  width: 100%
}

.MenuCurrentPage
{
  color: #696969;
}