If you're on a mac box, bbedit is the answer to every text based problem (well the ones that you couldn't be bothered learning PERL for, anyway). Unfortunately, you problably aren't on a mac.

My personal favourite is SciTE on win/linux. CrimsonEdit is good too, but really it's just a KATE imitation. I'm not sure if either of these do multiple-file search and replace, though, and I can't check (short of installing X11 on this mac and then SciTE, but i'm feeling lazy right now).

Of course, if you felt like using PHP for this job, you could do something like
a) read all filenames into an array, using opendir, readdir, et. al.
open each file sequentially, reading contents into string - say $StringWithTheFileInIt = file_get_contents ($filename) or something.
c) do $new_string = preg_replace ("/include\s+?(\s+?'menu.htm'\s+?);/i", "/include ('menu.php');/", $StringWithTheFileInIt);. That scary-lookin thing just looks through $StringWithTheFileInIt, and replaces the old text with the new. The \s+? are to allow for any whitespace you may or may not have put in.
d) overwrite the old file with the contents of $new_string, using fopen ( $filename, 'w' ).
e) rinse, lather, repeat until done.

Since you're using menu.php, i'm assuming that you know what most of that means :| If you do do this - i recommend you back up your stuff first in case you make a mistake and things go horribly wrong. I know the true pain of accidentally overwriting 10mb of text files with the string 'hello world'...... not cool.

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