RE #1, you may want to change drive letter for "F" so it fits into the A-D limitation of the group policy sited above. We typically would set it to "D", and might make a CD drive "B" for example.
RE #2, you could use the PNAgent to do this, or you could also wright a login script to delete and re-create a personalized start menu each time someone logs in, based on AD Group membership. KIX is a good scripting tool for this. So if they are in the "MSAccess" AD group, they get a start menu icon for MS Access, etc.