Removing Chrome actually made it worse after rebooting. My original menus are all gone. I don't even see the 'extra' free space on the stick. At this point I'm a little frustrated.
If I could save just the bookmarks for mozilla and just reflash(reformat too), I'd be content to at least start from square one. And have a bigger persistent image to work with!
Can't be stupid with a command line OS like Linux. Gotta know the guts, which I am learning. I would like to be able to help someone else in the future as well!