Getting rid of Automatic Categories in Public Site Manager

In transferring all of the existing content from the Smithsonian Folkways iTunes U site, I've noticed some features of the new site are locked in place. In most cases, the locked-in features can work for Folkways. But the Categories section is totally useless to us because we don't categorize our content using things like Fine Art, Science, Math, Language. All of our assets are music. I am creating specific categories for Cultural Heritage (things like Hispanic Heritage, African American Heritage), using tags.
I've ensured that every one of our assets is without a Category. None of our videos or albums are associated with any of the standard apple categories like Fine Art or Math. But the Categories section still appears when I preview the new landing page, and for some reason some of our assets are still listed under apple's categories.
Anyone have any idea how to turn this feature off? Or create some kind of bypass. It says that if fewer than 2 of our assets are categorized, then they won't display them. Why isn't this working?

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