You actually HAVE TO always have a default “home page” menu item – though your default homepage doesn’t necessarily have to be the traditional home page (if that makes sense).
I think I understand what you’re wanting to do through . . . and the way I once created a work around was creating the “Home” menu item within my footer menu (set as default), so that I didn’t need to have it on my Main Navigation menu. All of the settings for the “Home” item were identical as they were when it was living on the Main Menu … I simply transposed it over to my Footer menu.
Make sense?
