MY> My data structure is rather complicated.  Each node contains a 
  MY> pointer to the base type and can either contain either a tree or 
  MY> linked list.... 
 
I love complicated data structures... what I didn't say was that the array
is itself a derived class, - esentially a menu that can contain itself as
submenus... it's really fun.  ( and I hope it works... :)

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