Need help with horizontal css menu

I need a css menu like this:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/pro_horizontal.html

This has been designed by using big hover buttons. Is there any otehr simple way to design this menu? Maybe by breaking this image into 2 parts.
Please let me know asap.

 

Something i put together in a hurry:

I used only 3 buttons but you can just add more in html if you like. Just add another <div class="button"><a>BUTTON TEXT HERE</a></div> under the 3rd one.
HTML:

<div id="menu">
<div class="button"><a href="[B]HOME PAGE LINK HERE[/B]">Home</a></div>
<div class="button"><a href="[B]SEARCH PAGE LINK HERE[/B]">Search</a></div>
<div class="button"><a href="[B]CONTACT PAGE LINK HERE[/B]">Contact</a></div>
</div>

Code (markup):

CSS:

#menu {
    height: 35px;
    width: 750px;
    background: url(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b363/CompressorX/button1.gif) top right repeat-x;
}

.button {
    margin: 0pt auto;
    width: 70px;
    height: 30px;
    float: left;
    text-align: center;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    font-weight: bold;
    padding-top: 4px;
}

.button a {
    color: #F4F4F4;
}

.button a:hover {
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: none;
}

.button a:active { 
    color: #FFFFFF;
    background: url(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b363/CompressorX/button2.gif);
}

.button:hover {
    background: transparent url(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b363/CompressorX/button2.gif);
}

Code (markup):

There is room for improvement but for the most part that is it. Notice that you have to add links to pages to each <a> in html in order for a:active background to be shown (the button of the page you are on atm).

EDIT: I have uloaded the images for backgrounds of the menu and buttons to my photobucket account and will keep them there for a while to give you the chance of downloading but since my account is overcrowded as it is i will have to remove them after that.

 

ok thanks, i did the same with two images.

 

The one i did has only 2 images also.. button1 and button 2. I would like to see what you did and how if possible.