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Does anyone here have any tips to share with regards to network-wide (“global”) menus, in particular in use with BuddyPress?

WPMU Tutorials recently did a pre-release of a networkwide menu plugin, but unfortunately I could not get it to work. I have yet to see the plugin in action, so if someone gets a working demo up, I’d really like to see it.

There are also some custom tutorials spread around the blogosphere:
http://dustyreagan.com/global-page-navigation-accross-wordpress-mu-blogs/
(I could swear there were others, but I seem to have lost track of them)

Recently though, I realized< BuddyPress already does exactly what I want from a network-wide menu: It adds a global menu across every site on your network upon ‘Network Activate’.

I figure it shouldn’t be that hard to modify the BP top menu, ideally through a plugin or (child-)theme. These are some of the pointers I’ve come by:
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-modify-the-top-admin-bar/
http://erikshosting.com/wordpress-tips-code/add-all-pages-to-buddypress-admin-bar-dynamically/
http://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

So now I ask you, WP/BP gurus: On a WordPress Network site with BuddyPress enabled, which would you recommend?
1 – Modifying the BuddyPress top-menu
2 – Using a plugin, like “Networkwide Menu”
3 – Custom coded menu