Well in case anyone sees this… I think I found the answer here:’http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_template_part
this seems to work. Parsing the code properly may mean dividing the divs differently between the code snippet and the template… but here’s what i have and it works.
Be sure to use a hyphen for file name…
Menu snippet in this file: menu-primary.php
template calls the menu like this:
<?php get_template_part( ‘menu’, ‘primary’ ); // Loads the menu-primary.php template. ?>
Makes more sense in a longer more complicated menu code than what I’m currently using.