Decode function not called for a custom component

I know this problem happened in the past - in the EA2, EA4 and I believe the beta version as well, but does anyone know if it has been solved for the release ?
In short - I'm working with the release, created a menuBar component and the decode method in the renderer is not called after I submit the page. In the past, there were rumors that this happened due to relative paths in the JSP (for js files, images, etc.).
Does anyone else have this problem ? or better , know how to solve it ?
Thanx,
Netta.

It's not that simple - The component is getting rendered, all the encode methods are called and the decode is called also , but only the first time the form is submitted.
I added this custom component to the guessNumber application, and I have a menuBar in the greeting.jsp that leads to the response.jsp and vice versa. it looks like this in the greeting.jsp page -

<t:MenuBar id="bar1" styleClass="myClass" >
<t:Menu id="menu1" name="menu1">
<t:Menu id="menu2" name="menu2">
<t:MenuItem id="item2_1" name="item2_1" action="/mytest/guess/response.jsp"/>
<t:MenuItem id="item2_2" name="item2_2" action="http://www.msn.com"/>
<t:Menu id="menu3" name="menu3">
<t:MenuItem id="item3_1" name="item3_1x" action="http://www.msn.com"/>
</t:Menu>
</t:Menu>
</t:Menu>
<t:MenuItem id="item3" name="item3" action="http://www.cnn.com"/>
</t:MenuBar>

In the response it looks like this -

<t:MenuBar id="bar2" styleClass="myClass" >
<t:MenuItem id="item3" name="item3" action="/mytest/guess/greeting.jsp"/>
</t:MenuBar>

and every time a menuItem is clicked on, the JS calls submit form.
Since the menus are rendered, I assume there's nothing wrong with the rendererType and any other renderer problem. Since the decode is called only once, I assume the right form is being submitted.
So, what can cause it to stop calling the decode ???
Could it be that becase I go directly to the page and not through the navigation rules ( I call window.open directly from the JS), it creates a problem ??
Please help, I've been wasting so much time on this !
Netta.

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