I needed the spans to add extra images to background of the links.
I found a bit of script to create the spans I needed:
<?php wp_list_pages(‘link_before=<span>&exclude=26&title_li=&link_after=</span>’); ?>
Which gives me:
a title="Who we are" href="#"><span>Who we are</span></a>
But I did actually find a way to add 2 images to the background using just the li and ‘a’ but I kept the spans in there in case I need.
Thanks BAC for the info about WP 3.0 I will have a look into those ideas.
Cheers guys