You can do the navcattabs in the admin. Turn of the categories under "Configuration", "Layout Settings", "Categories-Tabs Menu ON/OFF"
For the Home Link in the footer, open up includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_footer.php and remove this portion:
<li><?php echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">'; ?><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG; ?></a></li>
If you want to remove the copyright, you can open up includes/languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/english.php and make FOOTER_TEXT_BODY blank like this:
define('FOOTER_TEXT_BODY', '');
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