When in any theme you can hold ALT and click the trackwheel on any icon and move or hide it. I have been using the wave theme and this solved my issues with icons in odd places. Sorry if you guys knew this but I figured I would post it for those that didnt because it was so helpful to me.

Yes, I think it's been mentioned a few times. A few hundred times

There is an excellent tips and tricks thread that has lots of great items just like that one.

OOps. Lock this then. Sorry. Jumped the gun there.