How To Edit Parts of XFCE4 Desktop Menu

I am running Arch 0.7.1 with XFCE4.2. As I have been adding applications with Pacman, some items have started to show up on the XFCE4 desktop menu, but some have not. For example, a Multimedia category has shown up, but xcdroast and xzgv didn't get added.
No problems I thought, I'll just edit the menu. So I went to the desktop Settings tool, Desktop, Menu, Edit Desktop Menu, and to my surprise, no Multimedia heading shows up. None of the rest of the newly added ones do either - Office, Graphics, Network, etc. Since the headings don't even show up, I can't add things to them. When I check the menu.xml file in my ~/.config/xfce4 directory tree, these headings aren't there either, and yet they definitely ARE there when I click the menu.
I am stumped! I have checked the Wiki, searched the forums, and spent a bunch of time to no avail. Can anyone tell me why I can't see and edit these things? Thanks!

OK, solved my own problem - I should have held off posting for a little bit longer. In your ~/.config/xfce4/desktop, there is a file called menu.xml. As I mentioned in my original post, the menus for Multimedia, Network, etc. aren't there. When I went back and carefully examined that file again though, and actually READ all the comments in it, I see that XFCE4 autogenerates a set of menus based on ...  well, I am not sure what it is based on, since some things show up and some don't.
However, by simply doing as the comments say, and commenting out the line that does this, I can now add all of these items menus and items in manually, and thus get control over what is in the menus and what is not. Once it is commented out, you can use the GUI desktop menu editor to do the grunt work, so at least it is not too painful.

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