Yea, its total poop!
I was having a good root through all the steam rpg maker files and managed to create a full 'blank' project - so when i open a new project it has no sound or image files included - then i just import my own.
Unfortunately, it still creates all those damn database items and loads the default scripts. Like - you would think there is an 'rtp' scripts.rvdata2 somewhere in amongst the steam files - could just change that and voila, but alas.... This is not the case
Unless... they called it something completely different...
I mean, its gotta be getting the default database information from somewhere, right?