Oh my goodness. Do you know what a fright I get when I see my name in the forums like that. 
Thank goodness it's not telling me off about something!!
Ok I use Dreamweaver, and am also using and working with Expression Studio - the new Microsoft developer tool, which I would call the next generation CSS designer tool. They have spent three years on fine tuning this product so I've been working with it for a while and it's proving to be very good.
But in your instance, you want to remove a few things.. you can open up notepad and look for the code and remove it. That's what I do if I'm just removing a few things.
You might like to create a page that has a login screen so you can get into your site or if it's just for staff to log into it, create a hidden page with the login and bookmark it so you can get access to your site without too much drama.
Which files are you working with? ascx or html - I'll give you the information here for you to find and remove yourself. First, zip your files up before making any changes, then if it goes awol - you know what to do .. unzip and start again.
Open up notepad and do a search for [SEARCH] in the html file - delete that -and search will be gone. Or if you are using the ascx file - search for this - <dnn:SEARCH runat="server" id="dnnSEARCH" /> and remove it. Then reupload the skins.
To remove the user - look for [USER] and remove that in the html file or, in the ascx file - remove <dnn:USER runat="server" id="dnnUSER" />
To remove login - look for the [LOGIN] and remove that in the html file or,in the ascx file - remove <dnn:LOGIN runat="server" id="dnnLOGIN" />
You can move your links to anywhere on the page as long as they are not within the panes, the trick is to have an idea what you are trying to achieve, before you get started - but I'm sure you know that.
Nice looking site - I love the furniture and building industry, that's my background, in fact, our family had a business for many years creating furniture and I really enjoyed that time of my life, but that was way back then, and when I saw your site - it made me think of that business!
The very cool thing about dnn is that it does let you have complete flexibility and choices.
I would say have a look at what DreamWeaver or try the expression studio - these a design tools and while skinning is a bit more than design, I think the new Microsoft product will give Dreamweaver a run for it's money and provider a much btter environment to work with.
Hope this gives you something to think of .. and I was just about to go to bed, when I saw this post.. what a way to wake someone up!
Cheers and glad you're sorting things out.
Nina Meiers