I've finally admitted defeat and re-booted my laptop back into MS Windows XP: yuck!
I couldn't find a solution to removing U3 from a new USB thumb drive I purchased on Boxing Day from PC world. A day and a half googling for a Linux solution to removing this piece of crud and getting back the 60M or so of storage forced me to use the "official" Windows 2000/XP only solution: U3 UNINSTALL.EXE
The shortest distance between two points is under construction. -- Noelie Alito