extjs "sub menu" Using the Toolbar as a menu

This tutorial is about to answer some questions about how to build :
- the menu dynamically from data pulled from an external db, and that is working fine. However, the items off the main menu list are not expanding out to the right. Instead they drop down below the opening menu item. I took the example code with the static menu and pasted it into the same script and those behave properly - items and sub-menus push out to the right and then flow down.

- adding a combobox as an item in the menu bar.

- using inline UL/LI to create a menu using the excellent menubar component.

- use menubar/menuitems with buttons that have icons with no text.

- etc.

to do these please visit: http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=69007