It's not just yours, if you take the sample 100% span and try to change that to 80% it will do the same thing that yours does. I would venture to guess, that the menualign functions with the 100% span, that what it does is find the size of the window, and expand equally the left of the first item and right of the last to span the window and that menualign="center"; tells the actual items to stay in the center of that span. I don't think the menualign functions if you try and tell it to span less than 100%.
Ruth