Date Panel in Album View

Whenever I am viewing albums a DATE panel appears in a great semi-transparent grey box in the middle of the screen. I cannot get rid of this box unless I view the pictures as a slide show. It is a tremendous inconvenience as it gets in the way of scan viewing of the Album pictures. I have ascertained that it is the SAME date panel with the SAME date - October 2006 - regardless of the Album I am viewing. Has anyone any advice on how to remove this bug / feature? I should add that in every other respect my computer is working extremely efficiently so I would prefer to avoid having to do a complete re-install of the System and / or iPhoto software. Many thanks.

Crispin Bates
iPhoto Menu -> Preferences -> Apearance: Uncheck 'Show Scrolling Information'. There's a similar option in the Events pane too.
Regards
TD

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