When recieving emails to my personal account on my curve, i'm annoyed by the glut of text garbage referring to graphics that wont load in my application. is there a setting that will strip this out or something?

There is no setting to get rid it. You could use an email viewer like Empower there is also a few more that I cant think of off hand.

They clean up the emails and make them look good

There are two. BBSmart and Empower. Do a search for either one of those and you'll find lots of threads about them.

both work well BBsmart is just a bit faster and cleaner to me (only my opinion)