I'd love to install it! but can't for some reason.
Go to synaptic and remove.

You're unable to install it? It seems that these days, you can't avoid
installing it (or something like it) - it just seems to get installed
as standard with just about everything - I didn't get the choice,
sadly ... mind you, I did take the easy route and installed from the
latest Live CD image ...

Is Synaptic different from the Add/Remove Programs option, then? As I
said, I can't seem to find it in there ...

I don't have a problem using the shell - despite being largely
unfamiliar with a lot of these newer, Unix variants, I "grew up" as a
sys-admin on SunOS/Solaris/HP-UX/AIX (been out of that for something
like 8 years now), so am familiar enough with Unix in itsself - if
there's a better route to removing it using this ('apt-remove <blah>',
or whatever it's called), then it would be great if someone had the
proper syntax that I could simply pull into a shell-script, or
somesuch.

I'll try to have a look at synaptic later tonight, when I get a chance
(currently working silly hours ...)

You're unable to install it? It seems that these days, you can't avoid
installing it (or something like it) - it just seems to get installed
as standard with just about everything - I didn't get the choice,
sadly ... mind you, I did take the easy route and installed from the
latest Live CD image ...

Is Synaptic different from the Add/Remove Programs option, then? As I
said, I can't seem to find it in there ...

I don't have a problem using the shell - despite being largely
unfamiliar with a lot of these newer, Unix variants, I "grew up" as a
sys-admin on SunOS/Solaris/HP-UX/AIX (been out of that for something
like 8 years now), so am familiar enough with Unix in itsself - if
there's a better route to removing it using this ('apt-remove <blah>',
or whatever it's called), then it would be great if someone had the
proper syntax that I could simply pull into a shell-script, or
somesuch.

I'll try to have a look at synaptic later tonight, when I get a chance
(currently working silly hours ...)

I assume that it doesn't like my graphics card - i get a compiz fusion
icon in the menu but that's it.

Synaptic, apt, aptitude and add/remove all have different databases of
apps installed. So one is best to stick to one i gather. Aptitude will
remember dependencies and thus will remove them when you remove a
particular app. apt's autoremove and purge will also remove
dependencies but not quite so reliably as aptitude from what i can
work out. aptitude will however sometimes remove wanted items if one
has switched between apt and aptitude i've found. I just stick with
apt and use deborphan to get rid of dependencies - not a big deal if
one is upgrading every 6 month or year [i just do it yearly]. Synaptic
is great for installing but definately doesn't remove dependencies
from what i've experimented.

Well, managed to experiment with synaptic a little late last night -
seemed to do the trick - many thanks.

Just got to work on some of the other little niggles & irritations I'm
coming across - watch this space.