I see you have not yet been alerted to the sooper speshul quick fix which will banish the tickyboxes from your journal. It is here: http://lupinity87.livejournal.com/9308.html

You just toss a few lines of code into your custom CSS (one highlight-and-copy, one link-click, one scroll-down-and-paste, one save-click) and voila!

And ftr, if you and/or Prim head over to Dreamwidth, I'm begging an invite code and tagging along. ;-)