Thanks for the reply guys. I think you are on the right track, but I still can't get it to go:

Here's what seems to make the most progress in the IDE, but this is still blue lined and I cant find the FindControl attribute anywhere and I had to add "New"

'ContentMenu is the name of the Menu control
Dim MyMasterMenu As New Web.UI.Menu = MasterPageEDCPages.MasterPage("ContentMenu")

' And then you can access individual menu items
MyMasterMenu.Items(1).Visible = False

Thoughts?