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TVM greggles. I implemented your suggestion to good effect:

I copied book-navigation.tpl.php to my theme directory, and edited it there. I actually encased all the content in the file as follows:

<?php /*
:
:
*/?>

This got rid of ALL the navigation content in the book block itself, which is what I wanted - I already had the book navigation block enabled (in left sidebar) and that's all i wanted to present to the user.

Regards,

CdeB