Meta-Box Issue: Links Manager and <span>’s

For full details see this post: http://thecorkboard.org/needed-wordpress-links-manager-as-post-meta-box/

Short description:
I’ve created a meta-box for posts that pulls in all of the links in the links manager. This provides easy accessibility for those who regularly need those links.

Drag and drop works natively from the meta-box to the visual editor in Safari.

When a link is dragged into a sentence it is wrapped with <span> tags with some style added. Is there a way to remove these spans?

Thanks!
Kyle
@thecorkboard