Well, I pruned away to my hearts content......
First, Run the darn app (not allowed past firewall) and disable everything possible in its options dialogues. Next, check the streams all work and get 'em imported into MC library (radio 5 live needed some dolby codec d'loaded, which I gratefully received before slaughtering the installation:D). Reboot. Start MC and play the stream. Zip up sections of the realone program saving full path info, then attempt to delete originals. Anything MC is using should be protected from deletion.....
1. Got rid of the tkbell nonsense from the registry startup run
2. Removed entire contents of "docs 'n' settings\user_name\app data\real" (a txt file with transport info gets recreated here. fair 'nuff)
3. Got rid of 90% of the stuff in "prog files\common\real\"
4. Got rid of everything in "prog files\real\realone\" except the plugins and rpplugins folders.
Not a whole lot left, and MC still plays the streams
Anyone think of anywhere else I might have missed?