o.k. it's not just for Drupal 6, but it makes the title sound so much better :)

The joys of Drupal are no stranger to the limitations of IE6. I have spent a lot time time playing with themes... it's really been a joy, and part of that has been experimenting with jQuery. In this situation, it was a true lifesaver. While working on a site with some cool hover classes in the primary menu I came across a long standing issue, of course, related it IE6 and earlier... trying to establish a hover state for a li (line) item. The poor browser just won't give us a hover state, so we have to force it to give us an active state.

After looking through a dozen or so google results I came across this post, and with a little editing... it worked like a charm.

Here is what I ended up with as my final code for a standard Dupal install that would want to use it as a solution.

The Code