hi
i just did a similar thing today
its in the header file and what i did was manually type in my links instead of automatically to get around the problem
its not finnished but this is basically what i did
<ul id="front_menu">
<li class="page_item page-item-3"><a href="/blog" title="Blog"><span>blog</span></a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-3"><a href="get-involved" title="Get Involved"><span>Get Involved</span></a></li>
<?php if(is_front_page()) $selected="s"; ?><li><a class="<?php echo $selected; ?>" title="<?php _e('Home','lightword'); ?>" href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><span><?php _e('Home','lightword'); ?></span></a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-3"><a href="media" title="Media"><span>Media</span></a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-3"><a href="contact-us" title="Contact Us"><span>Contact Us</span></a></li>
</ul>
were i had the link in the middle
the page numbers have to be fixed
and so does the names of the pages
but that should work
and i apologize if its not the ideal method
there might be another, by placing that home script section into a function that places it inside the list pages script or something similar