Taxonomy Module and problems with creating content.

HI,

I am relatively new to drupal and I really like all of what it has to offer. I don't quite know how to classify my problem but I'll give a brief description. I have Drupal 4.6.5 installed on a Suse Linux box.

I have core categories on my site such as About, Forms, Contact Info, Divisions etc. Upon reading discussion forums and drupal help sections, the taxonomy module seemed the most powerful.

I enabled the taxonomy module and added 4-5 vocabularies to organize my content into categories. I also added terms to those vocabularies. After going through some Drupal "tutorials", it made sense to have the taxonomy_associations module as well. After downloading and installing that, I go to create content (say page), it asks me for taxonomy term associations, which seems normal. Under that, it gives me 4 drop down menus for all the vocabularies I created. There is no "none" option to select in these menus.

Now when i create the page, it shows the page and has a links menu at the top with the terms from the drop menus as URL's. How can I disable those drop down menus? Is there something fundamental I've overlooked?

Any help would be appreciated.