So then spent quite awhile setting up friends filters... Now I can see feeds, nonfeeds, communities (NF) and noncommunities (NF)...
Kinda nice for when I just want to check what actual people are doing... or what's new in the news/files/articles/etc..
PITA though.
And I also changed some colors... think I should prolly do more of that - make it easier to tell them apart.