jburnette,
Finally had a chance to give this a shot - thank you HEAPS for you input.
I still can't seem to get it to work. Any changes I make seem to turn the menu system into a bit of a disaster. i looekd at the XML code more closely this time, and my *guess* would be to do thi I'd have to work out the maths for each individual button and recalculate the appropriate xpos and ypos. I tried just shifting the values for all the following buttons along by one button widths value, but I ended up in a bit of a mess. Looking over the XML tehre's quite a few references to posititioning of each individual button - does romoving a button entirely then trying to compensate possibly fluff up the positioning references for all the other button?
I've decided to concede for now, and just accept the extra buttons. Still the most awesome skin tehre is for MP hands down!
Thank you again for you help though!
cj