The menu and the placeholders are set to “Repeat on all pages”, you find that facility under “Arrange > Repeate on all pages”
The placeholder “set active menu” does two things:
a) Set class “current_page_item” the the LI which has an A tag whose HREF contains the name of the HTML page we are at...
    It may sound a litle complex, but it simply takes the URL (location), finds the page name, searches the A of the menu structure and
    sets the class to “current_page_item” :-)
b) When that is done, the Lava menu can be applied!
The rest of the site is your task :-) to fullfill! Good luck, and please let me know when you have fineshed the job.
Is it okay if I write a blog post on my blog: http://www.netsi.dk/wordpres about this case? and perhaps write about it on talkgraphics forum?
/Sten Hougaard
Wie zijn wij?