XI 3.1 Infoview Customization

Does anyone know if it is possible to customize Infoview in XI 3.1? ;
For example, these are the things that we would like to do:
1) Hide the Dashboards button on the top level menu.
2) Disable all Send to Options other than Business Objects Inbox
3) Automatically uncheck the "Default Settings" box when users select Send to --> Business Objects Inbox
I have found a few forum posts but no one has had a valid solution. Or maybe I should be looking into the SDK for these things?
Thanks for any help and/or advice.

It is possible to customize InfoView. However there have been some significant changes between XI r1/r2 and XI 3.x. There are some whitepapers available for XI r1/r2 but I haven't found a document either that describes this in a comprehensive way for XI 3.x.
The following link describes how to customize in XIr2: http://resources.businessobjects.com/support/communitycs/TechnicalPapers/be_xi_r2_customizing_infoview_using_CMC.pdf
Hope this helps...
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