I'd like to hear some says to implement a menu system where the user knows which section they are under simply by looking at the menu.

I started using actionStack from the indexController, it would call a MenuController, and that would load a menu.phtml layout into the current index layout. My menu displays on my pages, but I get caught when trying to implement the Current section highlighted. Is this the best way to do this or is there a better method?

I am also curious about this.
I have a similar predicament, and a seemingly inefficient solution.