Yellow-boxed screen tips

I would be much obliged if someone could tell me how to turn off the little yellow boxes of screen tips that appear when the cursor lands on particular objects on the screen.
G4 (Quicksilver)   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
those are called "tooltips".
their existence depends on the application that you
see them in. for example, it is simple to turn them
off in, e.g., GraphicConverter, as there's a
preference checkbox just for that. for other apps,
such a simple solution might not exist.
also, for e.g. Safari, it may be the site's HTML
that's defining the tool-tips (using the ALT tag in
their site's code) so of course there's no way to
disable those...
if you post more details on which apps you most
commonly see the tooltips in, more specific
suggestions might be possible... cheers
Thank you for your response; now you've given me the actual name for those ghastly little devils that block, obscure, hide, and otherwise greatly annoy...
So, let's start with Mac Mail: How do I axe them from this application?
Again, much obliged!

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