[Dúvida/Problema] Hover permanente em UL LI

[fernands]

Fala galera... estou com um problema persistente em um site que estou desenvolvendo aqui.

Desenvolvi um menu de hierarquia UL LI UL LI em imagens, com um simples efeito de dropdown na LI principal, chamando a UL/LI secundária, e gostaria de criar um "hover permanente" na LI quando a UL/LI fosse acionada.

Vou postar o HTML/CSS pro pessoal dar uma avalidada.

<div id="top"><!-- INICIO TOP -->
         <div class="center">
           <h1><a href="index.html"></a></h1>
          <ul>
                 <li class="home"><a href="index.html"><span><strong>COLDWELL</strong></span></a></li>
         <li class="sobre"><a href="sobre.html"><span><strong>Portfolio</strong></span></a></li>
                 <li class="solucoes"><a href="solucoes.html"><span><strong>Portfolio</strong></span></a>
                    <ul>
                        <li class="automacao"><a href="solucoes_automacoes.html"><span><strong>Automação Mobile</a></strong></span></li>
                        <li class="marketing"><a href="solucoes_mobile_marketing.html"><span><strong>Mobile Marketing</a></strong></span></li>
                        <li class="commerce"><a href="solucoes_mobile_commerce.html"><span><strong>Mobile Commerce</a></strong></span></li>
                        <li class="site"><a href="solucoes_mobile_site.html"><span><strong>Mobile Site</a></strong><span></li>
                        <li class="banking"><a href="solucoes_mobile_banking.html"><span><strong>Mobile Banking</a></strong></span></li>
                    </ul>
                  </li>
                     <li class="parcerias"><a href="parceiros.html"><span><strong>Parcerias</strong></span></a></li>
                  <li class="clientes"><a href="http://www.coldwell.com.br/clientes.html" target="_blank"><span><strong>Clientes</strong></span></a></li>
                  <li class="contato"><a href="http://www.coldwell.com.br/contato_coldwell.html" target="_blank"><span><strong>Contato</strong></span></a></li>
             </ul>
        </div>
    </div><!-- FIM TOP -->

E o CSS:

div#top ul {
    width:625px;
    position:relative;
    float:left;
    _display:inline;
    margin:-30px 0 0 288px;
}
div#top ul li {
    float:left;
    _display:inline;
    position:relative;
    padding:0 0 0 20px;
}
div#top ul li a {
    display:block;
    height:27px;
}
div#top ul li a span {
    display:block;
    height:27px;
    float:left;
}
div#top ul li a.ativo span {
    background-position:right top;
}
div#top ul li a span strong {
    visibility:hidden;
}
div#top ul li.home a span {width:62px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/home_default.png);}
div#top ul li.home a:hover span {width:62px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/home_hover.gif);}
div#top ul li.sobre a span {width:61px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/sobre_default.png);}
div#top ul li.sobre a:hover span {width:61px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/sobre_hover.gif);}
div#top ul li.solucoes a span {width:144px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/solucoes_default.png);}
div#top ul li.solucoes a:hover span{width:144px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/dropdown/dropdown_standard.png);}
div#top ul li.parcerias a span {width:84px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/parceiros_default.png);}
div#top ul li.parcerias a:hover span {width:84px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/parceiros_hover.gif);}
div#top ul li.clientes a span {width:75px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/clientes_default.png);}
div#top ul li.clientes a:hover span {width:75px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/clientes_hover.gif);}
div#top ul li.contato a span {width:73px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/contato_default.png);}
div#top ul li.contato a:hover span {width:73px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/contato_hover.gif);}

div#top ul li ul {
    float:left;
    display:none;
    position:absolute;
    width:144px;
    margin:0px 0 0 -60px;
    height:27px;
}
div#top ul li:hover ul {
    display:block;
}
div#top ul li ul li {
    width:144px;
    height:27px;
    margin:0;
}
div#top ul li ul li a {
    display:block;
    height:27px;
}
div#top ul li ul li a span {
    display:block;
    height:27px;
    float:left;
}
div#top ul li ul li a span strong {
    visibility:hidden;
}
div#top ul li ul li.automacao a span {width:144px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/dropdown/automacao_standard.png);}
div#top ul li ul li.automacao a:hover span {width:144px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/dropdown/automacao_hover.png);}
div#top ul li ul li.marketing a span {width:144px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/dropdown/marketing_standard.png);}
div#top ul li ul li.marketing a:hover span {width:144px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/dropdown/marketing_hover.png);}
div#top ul li ul li.commerce a span {width:144px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/dropdown/commerce_standard.png);}
div#top ul li ul li.commerce a:hover span {width:144px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/dropdown/commerce_hover.png);}
div#top ul li ul li.site a span {width:144px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/dropdown/site_standard.png);}
div#top ul li ul li.site a:hover span {width:144px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/dropdown/site_hover.png);}
div#top ul li ul li.banking a span {width:144px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/dropdown/banking_standard.png);}
div#top ul li ul li.banking a:hover span {width:144px;background-image:url(../img/menu_header/dropdown/banking_hover.png);}

Marquei a LI que gostaria manter o Hover permanente, e as sub-LI que ativarão esse Hover Permanente.

Editado Dezembro 28, 2010 por _Vinny_
Adicioner tag [code]

[_Vinny_]

fernands, tive que adicionar a tag CODE nos códigos e tive que apagar as cores no código. Por favor, na próxima mensagem poste as linhas que em que deseja as modificações.