someone must know the answer
1) The category, timestamp and posted by are created by some of your themes scripts (yourtheme/post.php, yourtheme/footer.php, …). Find that place.
2) Add an if-then-statement. Something like if $the_ID is not something, then print timestamp etc. Look here for template tags: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
The syntax is something like < ? php if ( condition ) action : else_something ? >
Someone else will be able to tell you exactly how that is done.
Thanks so much for your help. I actually got impatient, created a custom static page using a template that I modeled after index.php but removed the commenting stuff.
Thanks again for the reply.
peace,
John