Hiding Active Screen Corners

A while back I somehow got my Mac to show which screen corners are Active Screen Corners (a small, translucent white curve appears in the active corners), and now I want them off. The problem is, I don't remember how I got them on there in the first place. I don't want to get rid of the Active Corners, only the little things that indicate them.

Hey, gmprunner...
I don't know if you're still monitoring this topic, or if you figured it out, but I as I was reading another post about a "blue ball," and I saw information of about white "semi-circles" in the corners to indicate active corners. It and the "blue ball" are apparently hidden Dock features. Here's the entire link
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031010141631859
but to summarize... this is the Terminal command to get rid of it.
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-showcorners -bool false
Then restart the Dock with
killall Dock

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