Annoying Yellow Boxes - Mac OS 10.4.10

I am becoming annoyed at the appearances of "Yellow Boxes" that appear everywhere in Mac OS 10.4.10. To help provide an explanation, I have put an image of an example of one of them on Flickr. You can see the page with the image and a description of the problem here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45332683@N00/908753214/
Or, if you want to only see the image, you may look here:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1207/908753214_5eed73be02.jpg?v=0
Yellow boxes of this type _continually appear_ in Mac OS 10.4.10. Some of them are much larger than the one shown here. They will disappear after about 10-15 seconds, but I wish that I did not see them at all. Does anyone know of any way to disable them? Are there any tools (i.e. Onyx, Mac Pilot, System Optimizer X) that will allow me to disable them? They appear everywhere in Mac OS 10.4.10, and are _not limited_ to certain applications. They are even visible (and still annoying) from the Mac OS 10.4 User Account Login screen. Any help would be greatly appreciated. In advance, thank you.
D.G.

Hi ... I am still wondering if there is an easier way to solve the problem, rather than use the one mentioned above for an application by application basis. I'm not too well versed in Terminal. Could someone please tell me how to apply a global setting (one that would cause the change to take place everywhere, not just in the current/specific applications only)?
Another related question I have, if I apply the settings to the Finder, will the settings also be applied to the login window, after I logout from my account? Or, is the login window controlled by something other than my account (maybe ROOT)? Sorry for being impatient. I was so hopeful when I received the first reply, but have become frustrated after understanding how the suggested fix actually works. I am still hopeful that someone will be able to provide an answer, explaining to me if or how it is possible to apply the setting globally, not individually for every application. Again, as before, thank you in advance.

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