OK, You folks are not going to believe this. An associate of mine sent me this link (which I include to give proper attribution).
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-11183-0.html?forumID=5&threadID=187062&start=0What it says is: SHORT ANSWER: Go into the device manager and find the cdrom device it created the first time you installed it. Right click on the device and click on disable. U3 is now effecively disabled.
I had to restart my PC but when I did and reinserted the flash drive the CD thing was no longer there. I reformatted the accessible porton and did a quick format just to be sure. It is now A-OK.