Glad you got it working!
I don't know about the genious part! LOL Many would argue on that one!
As far as getting rid of the categories in the middle, edit skin1/customer/main/subcategories.tpl and comment out much of the top that displays sub categories. Then it should just show featured products and/or products.
You'd want to start the commenting on this line:
Code:
{section name=cat_num loop=$subcategories}
And would probably want to end the commenting after:
Code:
{ if %cat_num.last% }
</table>
{/if}
{/section}
I hope that makes sense!
To change the "description" word, try going into your categories and editing them. You will probably see the word "description" in the description section. I hope that makes sense when you look at it.
Good luck with the site! I think it looks nice and clean!
Carrie