I originally posted this in the wish list at this link: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=66408

However, there may already be a way to do this and I just don't know where the option is or how to easily change the script.

When customers click on a top level link, such as sports, the customer would then see the sub-categories, soccer, tennis, football, etc, and below would see all sporting goods products. In effect, the sub-categories are a way of filtering the main products. This is to counter the bounce rate from customers who somehow miss clicking on a sub-category or mistake specials/features as the products in the category.

Any help would be appreciated.