Please excuse my silly noob questions. I have only just discovered the joys of ED and spent the weekend and a bit fiddling with it and must say that IT IS FANTASTIC!

In trying to tweak it to my exact liking I have come across a few questions that I have not found answers to yet (yes, I have read TFM when I ran out of options, but doesn't everybody? ).

So, here goes:

1) Iceweasel runs fine, even though it took me a while to get the shortcut actually appear. I do not know what I did to make it eventually appear; as far as I know, I followed the same procedure about 300 times (create the .desktop file, reboot) with no effect. After an attempt number 301 it suddenly appeared. Weird. Perhaps Catorise Plus has something to do with it. However, the real question is this. It throws an error on startup complaining about misconfiguration and then starts in funeral colours. When run from a command line, it says,
It is true that I had uninstalled the offending theme but I have also reconfigured LXDE to use a different one. Synaptic does not complain about the missing theme, only Iceweasel and Alsa Mixer. Where is the config file to make them use the default theme instead?

2) I do not intend to use ED to play music or videos, so I assume I can remove the relevant packages to save space, right? Perhaps I should have started with an empty image and build my way up rather than cutting my way down, but it's a bit late now...

3) Similarly, I am happy to ditch LXDE and use debbie for everything. Will OO, Iceweasel and the like continue working?

4) Do I really need network manager, wicd and wireless tools if ED uses the Maemo infrastructure to access the network? What is the absolute minimum I need for the network to work?
I think I've managed to answer it myself. Looks like I need at least wicd (plus dependencies). Network manager is not required.

I am slowly chewing my way through all the 291 pages of this thread but it might take a while. So sorry if my questions have already answered. A thread search did not bring up what I was after.