[Cure for long drop down boxes]

The  child~ categories are indented but it is still had to see, I was thinking of Maybe only listing the parent and the next child in a sort-of drill down fashion.

[Cure for long drop down boxes]

I have a shopping cart in the backend there is drop down for navigating through the categories and sub categories, but I'm looking for a better way as I have over 3 thousand categories! and I need a better and faster way to navigate the categories. Any ideas?