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Don’t use menus like this JS Menu from allwebcodesign.com . If you noticed there is a “?” at the end of the file name. 
This query string is in each menu item.  Guess what, the search engines look at about.htm? and about.htm as two different documents and Google will give them both PR.  What this means is you will have each page voting PR to a non-existent page.  Can you say PR bleed.

I have worked on several of sites made from allwebcodesign templates and they have all had PR on the “?” and the non “?” file.  While it doesn’t matter to much when you are dealing with a PR3 site but when you see it on a PR8 site then it’s a major no no. 

I was reviewing a site that I am going to do some work on and I found a neat little javascript option link on each page where you click and it removes the side menu.  So I chicked it and low and behold the PR dropped, same page but a drop in the PR.

While this is a bit different than the javascript menu it’s the same thing.  Any javascript that runs and puts a “?” on the end of the URL is going to cause PR bleed.

So what does bleeding PR mean?  It means that you are voting PR to about.htm? and this dilutes your PR vote to the other pages.  If most of your inbound links are to your home page, now instead of your home page voting to 10 subpages it is now voting to 20 subpages.  With out bringing out the calculator common sense tells us if you create 10 extra pages the PR vote that is going to them is being taken from other pages.