Anyone set up Advanced Partner Center, and restricted and removed Center Tabs. I found a SuiteAnswers on how to do it, but it is not working for me, Not Sure what I am missing, here is the SA = 36160, when I did step 2, there is no box on the role screen for Partner Role, so I am not sure what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

That might be an outdated article....I thought that the partner center was controlled by the Center type of Partner Center or Advanced Partner Center. and if you needed more funcationlity then you would need to build a new role for exactly what you want them to see (which would consume a user license)

Yes, I did this (well one of my Dev's did it at a previous partner). But we had to fully script a suitelet as the landing page.