Pen Tool Problem With Adobe Illustrator CS4

Recently, after many years, I finally gave up using AI 9 and started to use AI CS4.
However I'm having a real problem and it's bugging me. When I start to use the pen tool on CS4, it gives me far too much information and interferes with my concentration. First, all these details in green pop up telling me that something is the path or anchor. Second, there is this horrible grey box next to my pen telling me such things as 'D: 62.54 pts'.
Could someone please tell me how to deactivate all these appendages and I can just have mmy basic pen back.
Thanks

Thank you very much Joe..... Problem solved.
It was driving me crazy.
Again, thank you.

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