Removing ".mac" icon in menu bar?

greetings,
i've recently installed 10.5 on my G5. it turns out that there is a ".mac" icon in the upper right of the menubar. i can't seem to remove it... it's next to the "spaces" icon... when i select the icon, it give me the option to open ".mac sync prefs"... i see no option to remove the icon from the menubar... interestingly enough, i recently got a macbook pro and it does not have that icon on the menubar.
the G5 and MBPro have the same window for the ".mac", with field for "member name" and password...
i used to have an account on .mac when it was originally free then i paid for a year when it started to be a subscription... but i didn't use it, so i didn't renew it... but that was obviously many years ago... when i first opened the preference window, it had my old ".mac" account name. i think it must have preserved my account name over the years of computer upgrades and OS upgrades... obviously, i didn't have a password for an account that was closed probably 7 years ago... anyway, regardless of whether i keep a name in the field or not, i see no other tabs in the pref window or any check boxes to turn off the icon...
because i have many many programs and windows open for may tasks i do concurrently, i am somewhat obsessive about reducing distracting clutter like unused or unwanted icons etc. i always remove all menu options, tool bar buttons, doc items, finder sidebars, etc. that i don't use... then it is easier to find and access just what i use... this will drive me a bit crazy until i can remove it...
i'd appreciate any suggestions about how to remove the ".mac" icon from the menubar... any suggestions, third party utilities, yanking out a preference file, terminal command to kill a process?
thanks-

wow, many helpful responses!
command + mouse worked... never learned that trick before for menubar...
interestingly, the pref pane in sys prefs does not show the "show in menu" unless one actually has ".mac" info filled in... before when i first opened the ".mac" pref and it had my old ".mac" info from about 7 years ago, i did see a check box in the lower part of the window. but everything was greyed out and it wanted a password before i could access anything in the pane... my mac os password didn't work and after a few tries for what i thought might be other passwords from a long time ago, the interface stopped asking and change the window to only show a place to put in login info... the check box was gone and also the "tabs" in that pref window went away too... so after that there was no check box visible any longer... but the command + mouse worked fine... so problem solved...
as a side note, i tried command + mouse to get rid of the timbuktu menu icon... on my work computer, the IS people install timbuktu, which puts an awful icon next to the menu clock. over the years, i found that the only way to remove it was to delete the program... there was a version years ago that install something in a library that could be found with global searches (pre spotlight), but that changed with a version probably 6 years ago... i discovered that just throwing timbuktu in the trash, emptying trash, and rebooting was always the surefire way to get rid of it... if timbuktu stayed on the hard drive anywhere, it would always reappear... Command+mouse, which i've just tried, does not remove the timbuktu icon... so into the trash it will go...
anyway, thanks to everyone!

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