Ghodmode

boywaja,
That’s a per-user setting. I can make that change for myself, but not for the site.

The bar affects the layout and presentation of the site. This should be in the hands of the site administrator, not the individual users.

It was pretty easy to add the line to functions.php, but that’s a hack. There should be an option in the Site Admin to disable it site-wide.

— Ghodmode

I’m also using a custom built theme. I had my own bar at the top.
The new admin bar blocks the one I created, but I was able to fix it by adding the following line to my functions.php.

// Disable the “Admin Bar”, new to WordPress 3.1
add_filter( ‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’ );

I seem to have solved my own problem. So, I’ve changed the status of this thread to “resolved”.

After reading Linking Posts Pages and Categories more carefully, I used the permalink structure I wanted for my posts and found that what I wanted to use for my pages works just fine.