Thanks Justin that did work..
– Located the div id “info” in my case
-Went to style.css
-put ” display: none; ” no quotes at the bottom of it
Footer was gone.. Thats great.
Problem I see is that it remains in the source code, and
crawl-able by search engines, and this could be identified as
hiding links, black hat stuff and might be worse than having
them visible.
Anyway I’ll keep looking for another solution. There probably isn’t 1 that will always work because I have seen at least 3 or 4 tricks used to stop theme users from removing them.