Sounds like you've got the idea of includes down. Yes, you'd have to include it from some file that's already autoloaded. eq2ui_mainhud.xml would be the choice if you didn't want it linked to any specific window, but if you don't want to mod that file (which I can totally understand) you could always include it in the startbutton XML. You've also got it right about the visibility, but that can be circumvented in a couple ways. Either mod the clock XML, but as you mentioned that would interfere with some other mods (Sunthas' ammo window comes to mind) or you could add a small button to the startbutton XML that would toggle visibility of the profiles window. Either way, if someone installs another startbutton mod it'll break this one, regardless of how the DDSes are set up, so I wouldn't worry about that too much.
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