is there an application of some sort that i can use to manage the games that i copy onto my hard drive? id rather do this than have to constantly ftp my xbox when i want to delete a game that i dont like or rename a game that dvd2xbox copied. thanks in advance.

that's something i wish dvd2xbox would incorporate.

anyways, you can use PxHDD Loader instead of dvd2xbox - it's on xbins as well.