I'm in the same mindset. I hate all those toolbas, its tacky, distracting, and it takes up valuable real estate on my screen I could be using for other things. I'm not sure how all these slanted numbers became the measure of a websites ranking, but I fond some of them rather valueless except to be able to cite them and make yourself sound good. Google PR is one thing but Stumbles, Diggs, and Alexa seem skewed.