Check out the widgets page. There is a widget that says "Login link" or something.

Page Top, or Header Widget.

hi.

thanks for the reply. couldn't find anything. the closest i came to finding something is the widget manager, which is helpful but i couldn't figure how if i can get rid of the log in tab on the header.

any suggestions from others would be helpful. thanks in advance.

Same thing: it comes from a widget so go to your Blog settings tab, pick a blog, pick the Widgets subtab, then notice that you have some widgets in some containers. One of your containers is called "Menu" ... I think. Anyway it has one widget in it so click the name of that widget and see what it's all about.

One of your widgets is providing all the links you have in the line of links that ends with the login link. Find it and turn off the login link.

And there you go!

Ah!! I see now. Apologize for being a bit slow in realizing it was just simply a widget that was already installed. Thank you to both.