Erasing - Has Stroke??

Ok, I was simply trying to create something. I had overlapping shapes with the stroke layer style and I wanted to erase part of the shape so it was white there rather than a line from the overlapping. Apparently now with CS4 you cant just simply erase lines if the layer you are in has a stroke layer??? Cuz when I erase, it just like pushes the line, which ultimately is very cool, if I wanted to keep the line but erase the shape to create a custom one. But I just want to get rid of the line. I think I knew how to merge shapes in CS3 for them to share the same outline, but I dont know how now. Plus I dont think that is what I want cuz I only want the shapes to share the outline in a specific area. Please help this is very fustrating. I had about 30min between school and work and wanted to create something and it completely failed and only wasted my valuable time.
Can someone tell me how to merge shapes though? Like if you put two circles together like a ven diagram and then merge them so they have 1 outline not intersecting it gets rid of the middle lines that create a sort of () shape and instead you have 1 big outline of 2 circles?

Courtejoie, I really appreciate your input, unfortunately, I am very confused, lol. Ok, to begin with, I changed the settings of each of my shape layers to "layer mask hides effect" as you said, no problem. However, I did not see what it did or how it helped. When I erased, it still pushed the line around rather than just getting rid of it. First of, in order to even erase any of the shape I have to rasterize it, which is why I thought it might be convenient to merge the shapes instead.
"You are using layer masks and not erasing destructively, right?" I have no idea. What is a layer mask and what do you mean by erasing destructively? I am sorry, I know how to use the program..sort of..just not good with technical wording.
Each of my shapes are in a different layer, because for each new shape I make, it makes a new layer, however, if I try to copy one of the shapes to another shape's layer, when I "paste" it puts it in a new layer. Maybe because I am not selecting the "vector mask"? What's that? Lol. I learned how to mask in Flash and I know you can "mask" in photoshop, but I dont think I am trying to mask anything, or maybe that is what I am supposed to be doing?
I really did try to do everything exactly as you said it, I'm really sorry. = /

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