I found out how to do this easily. Download the latest version of MC Menu Mender (a google search will easily find it) - it will allow you to customize the MCE main interface to your liking, including placing shortcuts (tiles) to installed plugins anywhere you like.

I was playing around with MC Menu Mender last night to move links around the media face interface. Takes a few mins to understand what you can do but once you do it's great. I was able to move the Movie Collector MCE launch button out of the programs folder of MC to the main MC interface.

You'll find a link to the latest MC Menu Mender here

http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/vista-plugins-addons/25714-new-util-mc-menu-customiser-32.html#post204704

forgive me for my ignorance, but where do I download the latest version? I downloaded a trial of Movie Collector but the mce part wasn't included in there. Perhaps some sort of link will help?

you can download it from here http://www.collectorz.com/movie/

Are you sure the MCE part is not already installed (I think it's in all demo's). It doesn't show up in the main lines in media centre, it'll be in the program folder. Or you can launch it from the Movie Collector programe itself, button top right

It's only the last couple of builds that have had it included. MC Organizer used to be a standalone application.