Depending on what theme you’re using (and assuming you aren’t trying to customize a wordpress.com blog), you should find a php call for “archives” in the sidebar. Delete that. Caveat: if you’re using kubrick or one of the millions of themes that fork from it, it’s not that simple, and I’m not at my normal machine that has my localhost installs on it, so I can’t help you further.
You might try a search either here or at the codex for “customizing sidebar” or “remove archives”.
thanks for your help… but i think i figured it out…
