You know what I mean, Kirby. The code and hook to cache it. ;)

Well, that's possible :)

And done! ;)

Great how to. answered some questions for me :)

One thing id like to know, or have more info on (cant find anything using search or browsing here or google), is about the option type (i.e textarea, yesno) and default values.

For example:

I would like to use a yesno box, but i cant seem to get the default to switch to yes. What default values do i use here?
Also id like to use a single line textfield rather than a text area. How do i do that?

I know maybe this should be answered in the questions forum, but I think this info would contribute to the howto as well :)

Default for Yesno yes = 1

Kirby, can you clear up some things for me? I have set my test installation of 3.5RC3 to debug mode and I now see the "Add New Setting Group" and "Add New Setting" things, but I see nothing that corresponds to "Add New Phrase Group" or "Add New Template Group". I want to be able to totally segregate my product from the rest of vB. Does that make sense? Thanks in advance for your assistance and speedy reply.

Adding Phrase Groups has to be done manually as there is no GUI for it.
1) Locate the maximum phrasetypeid in table phrasetype that is < 1000
2) Insert a new record into this table that has phrasetypeid=this value+1
3) Add a new colume phrasegroup_fieldname to table language
4) Rebuild languages
Then you can add Phrases to youre Phrasgegroup

Grouping Templates is done with a Plugin on Hook template_groups

If I do items 1-4, make the grouping plugin as directed and export the product, will the resulting xml file automatically set these up on a client? In other words, will the client installation show the new template group and phrasegroups as intended?

Yes it will.

Thanks, I have on last question then regarding the grouping plugin. Given the following statement, the named templates are still not grouped. Am I missing something?

$only['prefix'] = 'test_product_';

test_product_header
test_product_footer

This should wrap up my queries for a bit. Thanks for your assistance Kirby.