Disable or remove the Public Blog List widget from the "Blog settings" -> "Widgets" tab.

no luck. I removed the widget from each of the blogs that are currently there and it's still showing up. I realoaded the containers and the skin as well.

Welcome to the forum!

Can you be more specific, what skin are you using? A link to your blog is worth a thousand words ;)

I'm using the pyrmont skin. When i try and post the address of the blog it wont let me post. It's on a free host at the moment. Ultimately i'm trying to get the links to each individual persons' blog off the page. Then use a widget to list the titles off all the recently posted blogs from all users.

Edit: Ok i managed to find the problem with the links. It was set to index them on the list of public blogs. Now on to the task of scouring the forums for a custom index page that will show all the recent posts by all members

In Pyrmont skin Blog list widget is hard-coded in skin, so just remove the following block from index.main.php

<div class="blog_list">
  <?php
  // START OF BLOG LIST
  skin_widget( array(
		'widget' => 'colls_list_public',
		'block_start' => '/&nbsp; ',
		'block_end' => '',
		'block_display_title' => false,
		'list_start' => '',
		'list_end' => '',
		'item_start' => '',
		'item_end' => ' &nbsp;/&nbsp; ',
		'item_selected_start' => '<span class="selected">',
		'item_selected_end' => '</span> &nbsp;/&nbsp; ',
	  ) );
  ?>
</div>

Now on to the task of scouring the forums for a custom index page that will show all the recent posts by all members

I remember this was covered on this forums already, try to search.