Magento: HOW-TO add active products in a drop-down in Main Navigation Menu

Question

Instead of categories I would like products to appear in the drop-down navigation menu similar to lowes.com. Is this possible? I am not paying for anything either :)

Answer 1

Jared Eitnier's method works except on the log in, cart, and checkout pages - for example /customer/account/login the products' URL breaks it becomes /customer/account/login/product-seo-url

Oddly the products' URLs work on the CMS pages...

I am using Magento 1.6.2

I have changed this line -

$phtmlChildren .= ' '.$this->htmlEscape($cur_product->getName()).''."\n";

With this -

$phtmlChildren .= ' '.$this->htmlEscape($cur_product->getName()).''."\n";

And now it works on every page! Hopefully this helps somebody out.