thx the the advice, but unfortunately menudrake does not
allow the user to do more than modify the main part of the
menu; the mandrake linux menu + kde menu are additions
to this, separated from the gnome menu, and can not be
modified, let alone removed from the menu by menudrake.
here's a shot of the menu i want to modify; the two items
at the bottom (below the separator) i want to remove:
http://gigabit.evilforums.com/~neenee/images/this.jpg