OK, so i was looking in the wrong .brs file. Needed to be looking in the appHomeScreen.brs which makes sense given the name.
I needed to make this change...
Find this block of code (this is the edited version.
'******************************************************
'** Display the home screen and wait for events from
'** the screen. The screen will show retreiving while
'** we fetch and parse the feeds for the game posters
'******************************************************
Function showHomeScreen(screen) As Integer
if validateParam(screen, "roPosterScreen", "showHomeScreen") = false return -1
initCategoryList()
screen.SetContentList(m.Categories.Kids)
screen.SetFocusedListItem(0)
screen.Show()
while true
msg = wait(0, screen.GetMessagePort())
if type(msg) = "roPosterScreenEvent" then
print "showHomeScreen | msg = "; msg.GetMessage() " | index = "; msg.GetIndex()
if msg.isListFocused() then
print "list focused | index = "; msg.GetIndex(); " | category = "; m.curCategory
else if msg.isListItemSelected() then
print "list item selected | index = "; msg.GetIndex()
kid = m.Categories.Kids[msg.GetIndex()]
if kid.type = "special_category" then
displaySpecialCategoryScreen()
else
displayCategoryPosterScreen(kid)
end if
else if msg.isScreenClosed() then
return -1
end if
end If
end while
return 0
End Function
And make sure this value in side the () was 0
screen.SetFocusedListItem(0)
Just like I was told do above...I just didn't know which file to do this in.
Why am I spelling all this out? So the next guy using the VideoPlayer example who wants to make the same change will know what to do. 
