Tool Tips in Snow Leopard -turn them off?

I've got my fingers crossed that OS X 10.6 has addressed the yellow tool tips issue -that is, how to turn these fantastically annoying and completely useless things off, once and for all! The only purpose they serve is to block you from seeing what is important screen content. So please, does anyone know if this is now a optional function in 10.6 and how to deactivate them.
Thanks!

This solution worked really well. Thanks for all speedy replies. I initially, accidentally posted this in another forum. To go directly to reply to this, follow:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10217473#10217473

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