addendum: Right after taking that screenshot and sending the comment I did a "remove from panel" on the main menu applet, meaning to go on and remove the launchers too, and the quit launcher, and take out the user switcher in gconf-editor ... but removing the main menu applet removed everything else that shouldn't have been there and put my panel back to what it should be in netbook remix. (weird?)
addendum: Right after taking that screenshot and sending the comment I did a "remove from panel" on the main menu applet, meaning to go on and remove the launchers too, and the quit launcher, and take out the user switcher in gconf-editor ... but removing the main menu applet removed everything else that shouldn't have been there and put my panel back to what it should be in netbook remix. (weird?)