That looks a cool menu system and in short its possible to do what you ask.
I'm in the process of doing something similar and will be adding it to the mod forums shortly.
At the moment the only tabbed menus i do are these
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=200684 see if that any good for you??
You can see a demo here
http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/demo.html