Pre-Scripting Limitation: Is there a workaround?

I have a simple pre-script attahced to all of my menus so that I can keep track of the last viewed menu. Unfortunately, since it is a pre-script, it doesn't run if I jump to a particular button on a menu. I must jump to the root of the menu in order for the pre-script to run. This renders the script less than useful.
Is there an elegant way to keep track of the last menu viewed (when I say elegant, I mean without resorting to attaching a script to every button on every menu)? I know display conditions will run no matter which element on a menu you jump to, but I don't think I can set one up to work properly for this purpose.
Anyone know of another approach? Thanks much.

SPRM8 will update as you mouse over it, but it will hold on the value of the button clicked whilst the track is playing. Since you are already within the menu at the time you mouse over anything, you don't actually need to know what the last button value was, do you? That only becomes important and relevant when you want to get back to the menu from a track.
And no, it's not the buttons which need the scripts. The buttons that look as if they are moving you to a different menu point to a script which sets the GPRM. If you are on menu 1 and go to menu 2 then that is one script. If you are then wanting to go back to menu 1 that would require another script in the method I suggest.
However, you could script this using a second GPRM to hold both values, then start using swap arguments to get back to the correct menu (as you suggest). In my view, whilst this is possible, it is uneccesarily complex for what you are trying to achieve. I dare say there is some more simple mathematics that can be employed here, just adding 1 and subtracting 1 depending on which direction you intend going between your menus.
Makes perfect sense to me! How many menus are we talking about here? If it isn't a great many, then simple scripting is all you need to worry about!
There is one more way to go about this, and that is to use the DVDSP values for menus. In DVDSP3, for example, the first menu in the outline view (at the top of the stack) would have had a value of 32 attached to it. The second a value of 64, and so on. Using this information would then allow you to identify any menu in a script simply by knowing the order in the outline view. It is somewhat harder in V4 to do this as menus can get placed within different VTS, so I wouldn't recommend going that route either.
If you use the value of SPRM8 then yes, you will always be able to get back to the last button selected, no matter what.

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