I am actually using a child theme. The second thing I tried (above) was in the child theme. Thanks for your comment. Any other thoughts?
I tried the same and it broke the site. Also tried removing the entire twentyeleven custom options that appear at the top of the functions.php file w/this, but still to no success:
remove_action(‘after_setup_theme’, ‘twentyeleven_setup’);
I am on twentyeleven vers. 1.5 and WP 3.5 if that helps at all.