Final Fantasy Hacktics

I haven't been able to find much info about editing or removing the opening events before the first major event of the game, Orbonne Prayer, occurs.  I found the following on using ShiShi to edit Alazam's speech:
http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=8865.msg174797#msg174797

Here are my remaining questions:

1) Can I remove the name and birthday entry, and if so, how?

2) Can I remove Alazam's speech entirely, and if so, how?

3) Can I remove or replace the opening movie, and if so, how?

I couldn't find anything using search with any of the strings I figured it'd be under (movie, opening, start).  So if these questions have answers, I'd be grateful to get a point in the right direction.  Part of this is for my own game-making desires, but another is the annoyance in having to skip past all of this when I want to test my first event.  Is there some trick everyone uses to test their opening events and eschew the whole issue?

Thanks in advance.

I've recently started figuring out the basics of event editing and this has been a great resource.  I ran into a fairly major roadblock in trying to edit the Orbonne Prayer event and realized there's a small disconnect between the instructions listed for compiling the event and that actions needed to make it happen.

Compiling the event never overwrote the event.  Instead, I had to click Save Event and place the event in the Custom Event Dictionary before compiling. I assume this is something germane to v1.91 of EESP.

In any case, thanks for this leg up.  As I go through, I'll most likely make edits to my own personal documentation.  Did you have any plans of updating this document in the future?  If not, I don't mind doing it (since I'm going to anyway) and supply you with the finished documentation.  I do this kind of stuff for a living.