In the absence of other help, I've been playing around with various URLs. Most of what I want in My Yahoo I can now get with the following:
http://pg1.yahoo.com/raw?my.yahoo/index.xml
Using this URL plus setting the links at a depth of 3 and
using the cookies I found per Alexander's method, My Yahoo now opens up with "Welcome, rhsachs". No more "sign in." All of the news is there. The movies and playing times for theaters in my zip code are also there. I would need to set the links at a depth of 4 in order to obtain the movie reviews and therein lies a problem.
The Weather does not recognize my zip code and produces a list of just about every place in the world. If I click down through the countries to get to a city I would need to have the links set at four. When I do this, syncing takes hours. So I have to use Accuweather which does recognize my zip code.
The sports and finance sections do not recognize my My Yahoo preferences. Mail seems to recognize me, but I haven't had any mail to test this.
Still, it's a move in the right direction until Alexander can come up with a more elegant approach.
Bob