help with submenus using Swing

[Wrathchild]

I have a question on creating submenus. I'm able to get the submenu name and one item added to it. Problem is, I'm reading line by line from a text file, so I'm getting mutiple submenus for the same one, each with it's own item. How can I add the items to just one submenu? It seems I may need to read them all in and hold onto them, then populate the menu.

example:
Optionmenu1 > OptionmenuItem1
Optionmenu1 > OptionmenuItem2

should show as:
Optionmenu1 > OptionmenuItem1
OptionmenuItem2

        for (int i = 0; i < myList.size(); ++i) {
            MenuConfig theMenuConfig = (MenuConfig) myList.get(i);
            System.out.println(theMenuConfig);
            JMenuItem aMenuItem = new JMenuItem(theMenuConfig.getName());
            aMenuItem.addActionListener(al);
            if (theMenuConfig.getId() == 99) { // populate Apps
                if (theMenuConfig.getLevel() == 1) { // check for submenu
                    submenuName = theMenuConfig.getName();
                    
                }else if(theMenuConfig.getLevel() == 2) { // check for submenu item
                    JMenu optionMenu = new JMenu(submenuName);
                    optionMenu.add(theMenuConfig.getName());
                    m1.add(optionMenu);
                }
                else
                    m1.add(aMenuItem);
            } else if (theMenuConfig.getId() == 1) { // populate URLs
                m2.add(aMenuItem);
            } else if (theMenuConfig.getId() == 2) { // populate Folders
                m3.add(aMenuItem);
            } else
                // populate Files
                m4.add(aMenuItem);
        }

Please see this post for entire application code:

http://tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1344046&page=1

I can post sample text file data if need be.