I'm trying to remaster of Kurumin too...
It is really nice to see such a small remaster, as I never got around to making my own "cut-back"-version of Knoppix work.
(Kix project is promising to make a pureKnoppix, but the project isn't really up-to-date and seems to have reached a stand-still)

Kurumin also has an "extra"-skel directory it links to, might wanna check that out...
However, I tried remastering that too and it still gave me the portugese names, so now I'm gonna try the /usr/share/applink method...