Altering the Opening Events (Movie, Alazam's Speech, Name and Birthday Entry)

[demitrius]

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.