Hi there and welcome to the forum.
What skin are you using ?

i am using the photoblog skin
http://planethax.com/j-body/blogs/index.php/z24build/

Here's a couple of possible solutions to two of your problems.

Back up your "index.main.php"
to remove the permalink..
Find

<div class="bSmallHead">

				<?php
					// Link to comments, trackbacks, etc.:
					$Item->feedback_link( array(
									'type' => 'feedbacks',
									'link_before' => '<div class="action_right">',
									'link_after' => '</div>',
									'link_text_zero' => get_icon( 'nocomment' ),
									'link_text_one' => get_icon( 'comments' ),
									'link_text_more' => get_icon( 'comments' ),
									'link_title' => '#',
									'use_popup' => true,
								) );

					$Item->permanent_link( array(
							'before'    => '<div class="action_right">',
							'after'     => '</div>',
							'text' => T_('Permalink'),
						) );
				?>

				<?php
					$Item->edit_link( array( // Link to backoffice for editing
							'before'    => '<div class="action_right">',
							'after'     => '</div>',
							'text'      => T_('Edit...'),
              'title'     => T_('Edit title/description...'),
						) );
				?>

				<h3 class="bTitle"><?php $Item->title(); ?></h3>

				<?php
					$Item->issue_date( array(
							'before'      => '<span class="timestamp">',
							'after'       => '</span>',
							'date_format' => locale_datefmt().' H:i',
						) );
				?>

			</div>

and remove

$Item->permanent_link( array(
                            'before'    => '<div class="action_right">',
                            'after'     => '</div>',
                            'text' => T_('Permalink'),
                        ) );
                ?> 

To remove the Comment Feed look in the skins folder for .item_feedback.inc.php and look for

// Display link for comments feed:
	$Item->feedback_feed_link( '_rss2', '<div class="feedback_feed_msg"><p>', '</p></div>' );

Simply comment out that section.

John wrote:

Here's a couple of possible solutions to two of your problems.

........

Thank you, that worked perfectly.

I am just learning php and my main issue with any new software is finding where to edit, this helped me out huge!!!!

only 2 Items of my original post left!!!
Thanx again.

any help on where to change scroll bar values?

planethax wrote:

any help on where to change scroll bar values?

scrollbars, as in the browser's scrollbars?

If I remember correctly, changing the browser scrollbars as introduced by IE is being frown-upon by W3C. The other browser that supported it (and I can't recall which other browser was it) dropped support already, so now only IE supports it.

In my opinion, remove all scrollbar CSS you have, it is technically a "hack". Do expect it won't work if your theme is in "standards" mode. You will need to tell the browser to go into "quirks" mode for it to work in IE7 and IE8 - theoretically.