Problem with tabbed menus

I am a newcomer to struts-menu, and I am having some trouble getting tabbed 
menus to work properly.
Say I have the following tabs defined in my menu-config.xml file.

<Menu name="MyFirstTab" title="First Tab" page="firstTab.do"/>
<Menu name="MySecondTab" title="Second Tab" page="secondTab.do"/>

Both these tabs are included in my JSP.
The problem I was having was that when I display the JSP I could not get my 
initial tab to look as though it was selected.

I looked through the newsgroup archives and found that you could add a 
location attribute so I changed my xml to the following:

<Menu name="MyFirstTab" title="First Tab" page="firstTab.do" 
location="?first"/>
<Menu name="MySecondTab" title="Second Tab" page="secondTab.do" 
location="?second"/>

When accessing the JSP either "first" or "second" is put in the query 
string.
This works in that the tab appears to be selected, but the URLs are then 
messed up. The URL for both tabs became firstTab.do.
My second problem is that the location attribute forms the complete query 
string for the URL. So what do I do if my page attribute needs a query 
string i.e. instead of firstTab.do I have firstTab.do?qs=xyz. I can add the 
query string part to the location attribute but then when I access my URL 
putting "first" in the query string won't provide a match because there is 
also other stuff in the location attribute.

I am quite sure that I have got this all completely wrong, and would really 
appreciate it if someone could tell me how to get Tabbed Menus to display as 
selected properly.

Thanks,
Catharine

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