how can i turn off the popular feature?

I am going to add the priority feature and charge a small fee for links to be on the top.

To stop links building the popular page edit nph-build.cgi and comment out the process for building it.

Under sub build_all

Put a hash in front of the call to build the popular links, e.g.:

# &build_cool_page();

That'll stop the page being built, and you'll also need to remove the HTML links to the 'Cool' page from your templates so you aren't still 'linking' to that page.

Hope that helps.

All the best
Shaun