I know i could set it to zero and disable it from the template, but it might be easier if I disabled it completely. Some of my sites have no need for it, plus I want to do .htaccess hotlink protection and its not a good idea if I have RSS feeds with images in them. Please add an option to disable it.

THanks

Just delete the links from your theme files and then delete the rss.php and rss-comments.php files and they are completly gone for everyone.