Gents -
Tooltips in the superfish menus don't make sense: they obfuscate what a user is trying to view, particularly badly when there's a submenu. Why not pull them by default?
An easy solution was posted here:
http://azoomer.com/disabling-the-tooltip-in-the-dropdown-menu-of-a-child-theme/
Which is a repost of http://wordpress.org/support/topic/250875
holling