Hi DBCox,
I was just looking for the solutions to the same issues you had and didn’t find any comments made so far by anyone, so I went back to the settings of WPPA+ to explore and found the places to turn off the functionalities:
Look into your WPPA+ settings, go to Table II: Visibility and you would be able to find the Ratings System and Comments System, among all other theme elements that I didn’t think of changing but did after that ??
Hope this helps anyone else looking for same answers.
Cheers!