[boggsie]

This is how I setup my Internet Explorer favorites.

First I delete all of the existing items and add each of my fav's.

I actually read how to do this on the MSDN reference sites that the two of you linked to in the PROVXML reference thread.

Best regards,
-boggsie

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<wap-provisioningdoc>
  <!--
Setup Internet Favorites
 -->
    <characteristic type="Registry">
        <nocharacteristic type="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries"/>
        <characteristic type="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries\PPCGeeks - User Control Panel" translation="filesystem">
            <parm name="Icon" datatype="string" value="\windows\iexplore.exe, 0" translation="filesystem"/>
            <parm name="URL" datatype="string" value="http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/usercp.php"/>
        </characteristic>
        <characteristic type="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries\PPCGeeks - HTC Vogue" translation="filesystem">
            <parm name="Icon" datatype="string" value="\windows\iexplore.exe, 0" translation="filesystem"/>
            <parm name="URL" datatype="string" value="http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=48"/>
        </characteristic>
        <characteristic type="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries\PPCGeeks - HTC Vogue Updates" translation="filesystem">
            <parm name="Icon" datatype="string" value="\windows\iexplore.exe, 0" translation="filesystem"/>
            <parm name="URL" datatype="string" value="http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=59"/>
        </characteristic>
        <characteristic type="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries\PPCKitchen" translation="filesystem">
            <parm name="Icon" datatype="string" value="\windows\iexplore.exe, 0" translation="filesystem"/>
            <parm name="URL" datatype="string" value="http://ppckitchen.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=frontpage&amp;Itemid=55"/>
        </characteristic>
        <characteristic type="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries\PPCKitchen - Manual Downloads" translation="filesystem">
            <parm name="Icon" datatype="string" value="\windows\iexplore.exe, 0" translation="filesystem"/>
            <parm name="URL" datatype="string" value="http://ppckitchen.org/downloads/"/>
        </characteristic>
        <characteristic type="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries\XDA - User Control Panel" translation="filesystem">
            <parm name="Icon" datatype="string" value="\windows\iexplore.exe, 0" translation="filesystem"/>
            <parm name="URL" datatype="string" value="http://forum.xda-developers.com/usercp.php"/>
        </characteristic>
        <characteristic type="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries\XDA - HTC Vogue" translation="filesystem">
            <parm name="Icon" datatype="string" value="\windows\iexplore.exe, 0" translation="filesystem"/>
            <parm name="URL" datatype="string" value="http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=390"/>
        </characteristic>
        <characteristic type="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries\XDA - HTC Vogue Upgrades" translation="filesystem">
            <parm name="Icon" datatype="string" value="\windows\iexplore.exe, 0" translation="filesystem"/>
            <parm name="URL" datatype="string" value="http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=391"/>
        </characteristic>
        <characteristic type="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries\XDA - HTC Titan Upgrades" translation="filesystem">
            <parm name="Icon" datatype="string" value="\windows\iexplore.exe, 0" translation="filesystem"/>
            <parm name="URL" datatype="string" value="http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=384"/>
        </characteristic>
        <characteristic type="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries\Google" translation="filesystem">
            <parm name="Icon" datatype="string" value="\windows\iexplore.exe, 0" translation="filesystem"/>
            <parm name="URL" datatype="string" value="http://www.google.com/"/>
        </characteristic>
        <characteristic type="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries\DSL Reports - M-Speed" translation="filesystem">
            <parm name="Icon" datatype="string" value="\windows\iexplore.exe, 0" translation="filesystem"/>
            <parm name="URL" datatype="string" value="http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1&amp;more=1"/>
        </characteristic>
    </characteristic>
</wap-provisioningdoc>