Those menu items are whatever is entered as the "short name" in the general parameters section of the 'Blogs' tab.

http://www.icyowl.com/shortname.jpg

or do mean the "DAEdmunds | Digital | Links" ?

this can be enabled in the backoffice (if supported by the skin)
go to the preferences of the blogs and look for "show public bloglist" or something like this - i don't know, how it's called in english.

No.. actually, I want to make the blog my home page and add menu items to it for other sections of the site... (not other blogs)

Like links, etc...

Which files do I edit?

I guess my question is.. how (and where) can I put good old HTML to make this thing do what I want...

I mean.. to add menu items on the top or side, a page counter, a page updated script.. things like that;.

I believe what you want can be found in the skins folder under the skin you're using. For example, if you're using the 'custom' skin then go to that folder. You'll most likely be adding your html to the _main.php file. That's the one that contains the layout of the page, and will allow you to tweak the sidebar and other things.

Hope that helps.
nate