I'm assuming that your question is actually how to make lag-free css rollovers, and not what you wrote in your post.
I already wrote up a post about it for Bennett, which can be seen towards the bottom of this page:
http://www.talkfreelance.com/showthr...t=23661&page=2
I still have no idea what 'excesive outlining' has to do with lists, or rollovers.