Thanks to the help of a fellow InfoPather, we have come up with a work
around...

Here is the posting he sent me...
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There's no way, at least what I've seen, to turn off the tooltip popups for
controls which are "required", but there is a way to turn them off for Data
Validation cases:



To do so, you'll need to edit the manifest.xsf file with a text editor.  
You'll see something like the following:

<xsf:errorCondition match="/my:Fields" expressionContext="my:Item"
expression=". = """>
  <xsf:errorMessage type="modeless" shortMessage="Cannot be
blank"></xsf:errorMessage>
 </xsf:errorCondition>



Change the shortMessage to "" (you need to leave the attribute in, though)
and the error message won't appear.  I turned off "required" for all my
components and created custom Data Validation rules instead.  Once I removed
the shortMessage, everything worked fine.



Tip: Change the message within InfoPath to something like $$$$$, then do a
find/replace to replace $$$$$ with nothing.



Hope this helps

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