Removing X Mouse Pointer/Cursor

Hi, all.  I haven't seen an option or mechanism to remove the "X" mouse
pointer/cursor from the screen in situations where I don't want to run
X with a mouse (I don't want the mouse pointer to appear ever).  I know
you can set -allowMouseOpenFail, but that still leaves the cursor in the
middle of the screen.

Is there a mechanism for disabling this via XF86Config?  I haven't
tried the "hw_cursor" method (yet, I'll try it later tonight), but
I didn't think this was directly related (this is a cheap Cyberblade
i7 graphics system).

Thanks for any help you can provide,

--Matt