Totally remove alblist from index (home) page, including TD class="tableb"

[codinedawn]

I have (almost) succesfully removed the albums under each category in index.php by deselecting "Show first level album thumbnails in categories" in config.

All I want on the index page is categories, no albums, no spaces.

However, although the albums don't show, the containing TR for albums remains. The irrit code says:
<TR><TD class="tableb" colSpan=3></TD></TR>

I want that code to disappear so the categories sit flush on eachother, no TR inbetween. My CSS class for "tableb" has 15px padding so Firefox adds in big spaces inbetween categories.

Removing /alblist/ from "The content of the main page" doesn't help because then album view doesn't show thumbnails.

Please assist, ta