diff -urN I:\lin-src\openbox\dana\openbox.git\openbox/menu.c ./openbox/menu.c
--- I:\lin-src\openbox\dana\openbox.git\openbox/menu.c  Thu Aug  4 00:01:28 2011
+++ ./openbox/menu.c    Mon Sep 12 22:43:44 2011
@@ -469,21 +472,8 @@
     if (!menu_frame_show_topmenu(frame, x, y, mouse))
         menu_frame_free(frame);
     else {
-        if (!mouse) {
-            /* select the first entry if it's not a submenu and we opened
-             * the menu with the keyboard, and skip all headers */
-            GList *it = frame->entries;
-            while (it) {
-                ObMenuEntryFrame *e = it->data;
-                if (e->entry->type == OB_MENU_ENTRY_TYPE_NORMAL) {
-                    menu_frame_select(frame, e, FALSE);
-                    break;
-                } else if (e->entry->type == OB_MENU_ENTRY_TYPE_SEPARATOR)
-                    it = g_list_next(it);
-                else
-                    break;
-            }
-        }
+        if (!mouse)
+          menu_frame_select_next(frame);

         /* reset the hide timer */
         if (!mouse)