You seem to be right, here are the things I commonly turn off:
Mines
Support Craft
Fighters
Computer Control
Computer Combat
Shuttles
I'm not really sure what support craft does
Anyhow Mines is the biggest thing as the AI builds so many Mine layers. Its almost too bad we cant turn off sats as they build a tonne of those too! I do computer control/combat for atmosphere as It doesnt fit the trek universe. Fighters just arnt powerful enough to make them a threat so why give them to the ai to build. And shuttles I havnt really experimented with yet, but mostly for atmosphere. I should try them out i guess