That kind of defeats the purpose. I don't want to do this from within mediaportal. I don't currently have a media portal installation. Can someone post a copy of their config files and I can modify them from there?
You need to use the grabber config to create the correct location and cinema details before trying to grab the details.
Those files are created by the config (not the one in the top section in the MP configuration app - look at the bottom for the process plugins)
Once you've entered the data about the location and cinema(s) you want do a manual update (this can take some time!)
setup the process plugin, attempted a manual download, and it doesn't grab anything