im kind of confused about setting up bookmarks and shortcuts

this is the code i am using to set up bookmarks

<applications>
<bookmark>
<name>Games</name>
<path>f:games</path>
</bookmark>
<bookmark>
<name>Emulators</name>
<path>f:emulators</path>
</bookmark>
<bookmark>
<name>Utilities</name>
<path>e:applications</path>
</bookmark>
</applications>

how come my bookmarks dont show up....do i have to make shortcuts first??

is there an easy way for me to make a menu item called 'games' which displays all the games in the path f:games without have to make a shortcut for every single game?? someone shed some light :-)

the syntax isnt exactly correct...some of my forward slashes for the directory names dont show up here.

Your config looks ok to me, my config below all works fine.. No need to add seperate shortcuts all done automatically..

<applications>
<bookmark>
<name>Games</name>
<path>f:\games</path>
</bookmark>
<bookmark>
<name>Emulators</name>
<path>f:\emulators</path>
</bookmark>
<bookmark>
<name>Utilities</name>
<path>f:\applications</path>
</bookmark>
<bookmark>
<name>Dashboards</name>
<path>f:\dashboards</path>
</bookmark>
</applications>

where are they supossed to show up at?? im not sure how to get a 'My Programs' menu item....can someone please post their working config file please ....thanks :-)

What version XBMP are you using ?
If your using 2.3 then the "My Programs" should be there, then using the settings you/I have already posted should work.

Here is my config file.

<configuration>

<media>

<map>C:,Harddisk0\Partition2</map>
<map>E:,Harddisk0\Partition1</map>
<map>F:,Harddisk0\Partition6</map>

<local>
<!-- remove the asterisks to set local ip address and gateway statically -->
<address>192.168.0.3</address>
<subnet>255.255.255.0</subnet>
<gateway>192.168.0.1</gateway>
<nameserver>192.168.0.1</nameserver>
<playlists>e:\apps\xbmp\playlists</playlists>
<timeserver>207.46.248.43</timeserver>
<thumbnails>e:\apps\xbmp\thumbs</thumbnails>
<bookmarks>e:\apps\xbmp\bookmarks</bookmarks>

<subtitles>e:\apps\xbmp\subtitles</subtitles>
<imdb>e:\apps\xbmp\imdb</imdb>
<home>e:\apps\xbmp</home>
</local>

<!-- specify as many shares as you like, note the format for each type of share -->
<!-- Note: XNS shares are created using RelaX, SMB shares are Windows shared folders -->
<!-- for each share you can specify the cache buffer size, note that this is optional -->
<music>
<visible>true</visible>
<share>
<name>PC Network (XBMSP)</name>
<url>xbmsp:///mymusic</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>PC Network (XNS)</name>
<url>c:\xbox music@192.168.0.1</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>PC Network (SMB)</name>
<url>smb://administrator:******@WORKGROUP/administrator/xbox music</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>XBOX E Drive</name>
<url>e:\music</url>
</share>
<share>
<name>XBOX MUSIC</name>
<url>e:\tdata\fffe0000\music</url>
</share>
<share>
<name>Playlists HDD</name>
<url>e:\apps\xbmp\playlists</url>
<cachesize>32</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>Shoutcast PC Network</name>
<url>c:\xbox shoutcast@192.168.0.1</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>DVDROM (UDF)</name>
<url>d:</url>
</share>
<share>
<name>DVDROM (ISO9660)</name>
<url>iso9660:</url>
</share>
</music>

<pictures>
<visible>true</visible>
<share>
<name>PC Network (XBMSP)</name>
<url>xbmsp://192.168.0.0/pictures</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>PC Network (XNS)</name>
<url>c:\xbox pictures@192.168.0.1</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>PC Network (SMB)</name>
<url>smb://administrator:******@WORKGROUP/administrator/xbox pictures</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>Pictures HDD E</name>
<url>e:\pictures</url>
</share>
<share>
<name>DVDROM (UDF)</name>
<url>d:</url>
</share>
<share>
<name>DVDROM (ISO9660)</name>
<url>iso9660:</url>
</share>
</pictures>

<videos>
<visible>true</visible>
<share>
<name>PC Network (XBMSP)</name>
<url>xbmsp://192.168.0.1/videos</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>PC Network (XNS)</name>
<url>c:\xbox videos@192.168.0.1</url>
<cachesize>512</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>PC Network (SMB)</name>
<url>smb://administrator:******@WORKGROUP/administrator/xboxvideos</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>VIDEO HDD E</name>
<url>e:\videos</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>Playlists</name>
<url>e:\apps\xbmp\playlists</url>
<cachesize>32</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>DVDROM (UDF)</name>
<url>d:</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>DVDROM (ISO9660)</name>
<url>iso9660:</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>PC DVDROM</name>
<url>k:\@192.168.0.1</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
</videos>

<tvguide>
<visible>true</visible>
<autoprocess>true</autoprocess>
</tvguide>

<!-- only HDD app shares are supported -->
<apps>
<visible>true</visible>
<share>
<name>HDD</name>
<url>e:\apps\shortcuts</url>
</share>
</apps>

<!-- application bookmarks are optional -->
<applications>
<bookmark>
<name>Games</name>
<path>f:\games</path>
</bookmark>
<bookmark>
<name>Emulators</name>
<path>f:\emulators</path>
</bookmark>
<bookmark>
<name>Utilities</name>
<path>f:\applications</path>
</bookmark>
<bookmark>
<name>Dashboards</name>
<path>f:\dashboards</path>
</bookmark>
</applications>

<extensions>
<music>nfo|pls|rm|sc|mpa|wav|wma|ogg|mp3|m3u</music>
<videos>nfo|rm|mp3|m3u|ifo|mov|qt|divx|vob|pva|wmv|asf|asx|ogm|m2v|avi|bin|dat|mp2|mpg|mpeg</videos>
<pictures>png|jpg|jpeg|bmp|gif|ico|tif|tiff|tga|pcx</pictures>
</extensions>

<dashboard>xboxdash.xbe</dashboard>
<shutdowntime>0</shutdowntime>
<sensitivity>0.2</sensitivity>
<xnsbuffer>8192</xnsbuffer>

<!-- Set the resolution you want XBMP to run in -->
<!-- 1 - Use Xbox video settings to determing -->
<!-- 2 - NTSC 720x480 @ 4:3 -->
<!-- 3 - NTSC 720x480 @ 16:9 -->
<!-- 4 - PAL 720x576 @ 4:3 -->
<!-- 5 - PAL 720x576 @ 16:9 -->
<!-- 6 - HDTV 1280x720 @ 16:9 -->
<!-- 7 - HDTV 1920x1080 @ 16:9 -->
<resolution>4</resolution>

<!-- remove the asterisks from the language element to specify language otherwise -->
<!-- XBMP will try to autodetect it based on your dashboard settings -->
<language*>21</language*>

<subtitleencoding>UTF-8</subtitleencoding>
<!-- Set this to true to use Media\common-font.ttf as UI font -->
<!-- don't forget to copy the truetype font to your xbox!!! -->
<usettfuifont>false</usettfuifont>

<!-- Screen saver setting in seconds (0=disable it) -->
<screensaver>0</screensaver>

<!-- snapstream server -->
<snapstreamserver>192.168.0.1</snapstreamserver>
<snapstreamuser>common</snapstreamuser>

<!-- prefill cache before start playing in % -->
<precache>10</precache>

<!-- timeout to wait for stream in seconds -->
<shoutcasttimeout>12</shoutcasttimeout>
<recordingpath>e:\music\recordings</recordingpath>

<scrollysuffix>|</scrollysuffix>

<autolaunchxbox>false</autolaunchxbox>
<autolaunchdvd>true</autolaunchdvd>
<autolaunchcdda>false</autolaunchcdda>

<!- Set to false to remove the IP/Disk Space/Build Info on Main Screen -->
<showdebug>true</showdebug>

</media>

</configuration>