Static/Standard links within Muse Accordion menu widget

Hi,
I'm a newcomer to Adobe Muse and so may have missed a menu or option somewhere along the line,
I'm trying to make a simple alteration to the standard Muse 'accordion' menu widget.
I'm re-creating a website I've already half built in Dreamweaver, it being a simple design I thought
this would be a good site to try to build with Muse. As you'll see here: http://www.thisisneil.com/rg-e/
the accordion on the left hand side has two static links sitting at the bottom of the menu linking to
a 'Contacts' page and 'Blog' hosted on Tumblr.
Within Muse, I can't embed these two standard links without the accordion function in the same field?!
Muse automatically applies the on-click, drop down sub-menu. Is there anyway of disabling the function
on selected menu items?
I'd like the two static links to drop down, and pop back up with two two functioning accordion menu's
sitting above as they do within my dreamweaver example, but can't seem to amend the Muse menu
to behave in this way. A shame to fall at the first hurdle with such a simple menu amend!
Any help or thoughts much appreciated.
Thanks.

Anybody?!

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