Since you cannot change the small menu icons I found (a simple) way to customize all the menu button (a work around).
I use the gallery control to enable many dynamic photo galleries for user of my site. So I only allow the administrators the ability to use any of the Menu items (and it all has to self manage dynamically). But I wanted to make the menu buttons into my own or use text as the images were too small for my taste and IMHO hard to understand for the average aol user...:)
This is how I go about it:
Here is my html code (I use a runat server div tag so I can programatically turn visable on and off based on admin authentication-you can use whatever you want of course):
<div class="postADMIN" id="GalleryAdmin" runat="server">
<a href="#" onClick="EditImageList('Thumbnails',1);" class='blackText2'>Edit
Details</a> <a href="#" onClick="upload('Thumbnails',1);" class='blackText2'>
Upload Images</a>
</div>
To find any of the onClick cmds for any of the menu items simple turn them all on and view the HTML source of your page and copy paste the desired <a href> that contains the item you wish to customize (the look of).
**dont forget to turn off the default menu items for those you custom write:
gallery1.ShowUpload=false;
gallery1.ShowEditDescription=false;
DM.