I know that at one time there was some discussion of making the admin parts of DNN more modular - so things could be removed etc. - along those lines I am trying to add an element to the admin menu - I can do that - at least by editing the tabs table its not a problem

The problem is I can do it for one portal but then if I create a new portal  it doesnt create the new tab - now this is the wierd part - the admin menu items are all recreated in the tabs table - this seems a little wasteful - if the tabs all do the same thing wouldnt it make sense to reuse the definition of the admin tabs - like we do with the host tabs -

Is there a reason they arent reused?  I have a thing in place to add me admin tab into the portal if the module is added anywhere in the portal - but this seemed like something that I havent seen discussed before. 

Change the ParentID of the Admin Tabs to be under the Host Menu in the Tabs tables.