Does anyone know of any threads or tutorials that concentrate soley on the start menu?

When it comes to theme building personally it is this I always have the most trouble with, no matter how I size and slice the graphic of the menu itself when I import the images into WSB I can never get the right side of the menu to line up with the left side properly and it is getting pretty frustrating here, I was up pretty late last night just working on getting this start menu to look right and it still does not look right.



I am not asking for anyone to do this for me, just some advice or to point me in the right direction to a good tutorial so I can learn to do this myself ...... with the minimum of ease.

Thanks!