I've just installed nav using the debian package for sarge... I've been adding routers manually using the web interface (and adding them to the _top container), but they are not showing up in the traffic map. I
Routers will only show up in the traffic map once the links between them have been discovered. This process should be automatic with no extra configuration required as long as the NAV background processes are running (the getDeviceData process does the actual data collection).
If you go to the 'Report' tool and select the 'Prefix' report, are your VLANs listed? Links between routers should be of nettype 'link' and the number of router ports ('antgw' column) should be 2.