How to (once again) customize the Character Palette's Favorites pane?

Way back in the dark days of OSX (wait, I think we're still then) I immediately found and had major use for the Character Palette (hooray for Unicode integration!). It has been indispensable in a wide variety of things, including Japanese document manipulation, music notation, subtitle generation in DSP, and mathematical formulae layouts.
Early on it had an easy to operate customization for the favorites pane, so you could arrange the glyphs by category (great for Japanese punctuation symbols) or layout (very helpful in mathematics). However...
That function seems to be long gone, and there is actually no useful help either under "Apple Help" or the Apple website for the Character Palette -- telling people how to access accented characters with it is something almost anybody can figure out in about 10 seconds, and that is pretty much the limit for help with the Character Palette.
So, the question is, "*_is there any way to customize the layout of the Favorites pane any more?_*" This could include odd key-combos, hidden buttons, or even hacking the prefs file (which I am having a hard time finding, since there are thousands of pref files and hundreds of directories to search, and Spotlight refuses to look in the system areas -- still yearning for the return of Panther's "Find" function).
Someone asked this question about a year ago, but got no response, so I will be very grateful for any help at all.
--Thanks

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Regarding 5) is this what you mean?

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