Use escape key to lose focus on ToolStripMainMenu items?
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I have a MenuStrip in one of my forms so that the user has a menu bar they can choose various things from. For convenience, some also have key shortcuts mapped to them. I've also achieved a custom look for all the items and their submenus by overriding the MenuStrip's renderer. 
The problem occurs when I use a key shortcut for an item with a dropdown list attached to it. When the list is down, if I hit the escape key, the list will close as expected, but the parent item is still selected. It's still highlighted, and it still has focus. Pressing the escape key again doesn't do anything. I take it that I'm suppose to implement this behavior myself? If so, how? ToolStripMenuItems don't seem to have any function calls that will tell it to unselect.