option to Hide/Show Repeats tab and repeating information

Would it be possible to add an option to hide/show any information on repeating events i.e. the 'Repeats' tab and the repeating info added to the node

Its just that I've had to use preg_replace to remove the unwanted info from the node and comment out the following from the date_menu function in date.module:

  // Repeat dates tab on node
  if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
    $node = node_load(arg(1));
    if (date_repeat_type($node->type)) {
      $items[] = array(
        'path' => 'node/'. arg(1). '/repeats', 
        'title' => t('Repeats'), 
        'callback' => 'date_repeat_page', 
        'callback arguments' => array(arg(1)), 
        'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK, 
        );
    }

There must be an better way to do this