It works!! It Works!!
I've got rid of everything except TV, Pictures & Videos, Online Media, Tasks & Now Playing (only appears if something is playing). Under Pictures & Video I've eliminated all but Video Library (although changing priorities is easy if you just want to do that).
Online Media is complicated - I want to have it with Program Library as the only entry, but I haven't had a stab at that yet.
Basically you can edit the overall Start groups in the STARTMENU.XML entry (eliminate or change priorities) & then you can do the same with each individual group through its SM.
GROUP.XML entry. The items to look at are between <> & all end in a priority figure.
Next thing to look at will be renaming Menus & items.
Maybe there is a way here to duplicate the Recorded TV look & feel for another folder (instead of having it as a watched folder for Recorded TV)? This would help if you have recorded TV spread across multiple PCs as the watched folder option seems to have refresh issues.
Justin