Just checking in and I have downloaded the April 07th refresh of the XNA GSE. I also have gone over some of the library documentation and it seems very promising. In the mean time I've been busy putting together some graphics of sorts for the main menu. Its a real chore to manage the graphics with some XML code and going back and forth making sure all is right. There is so much to digest and parse out . At the moment , I am working on developing with the Express version code name Orca's. I am hapy to see that the overall improvements are great. For one, the Database is smaller ,due to the fact its built around the Compact framework for smaller platforms.
This also true for XNA.