Spring Loaded Folders in Bookmark Bar

My apologies if this has already been asked (I couldn't find anything).
Is it possible or is there a plugin that will allow folders in the bookmark bar to act like spring loaded finder folders?
For example I have an Apple folder in my bookmarks bar which contains a number of sub-folders like hardware, software etc. If I drag and drop an address onto the Apple folder it just ends up in that folder, I would like to be able to hover over Apple and the subfolders become visible.
At the moment I have to Show All Bookmarks and organise from there. This seems like a really obvious thing to me, am I just missing a preference checkbox somewhere?
Many thanks
Tom
iMac 20" 2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Tom, I've never thought about that before. However, when you wish to bookmark a page, if you click on the Add Bookmark button i.e. the "+" sign/button next to the url/address window, you get a drop-down menu which shows the geometry of all the nested folders in your bookmark collection. It's just a simple case of scrolling down to the appropriate folder.
Apologies if you know that already and it's not of any use.

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