[carpeperdiem]

As Padraic siad, this is all related to Fast Lane Checkout. If you do not have FLC enabled, this code will nt be involved, BUT there is no harm to leave it in -- becasue if in the future, you should decide to use FLC (I do, I like it), and you want to update your version, without the code, upgrades will be even more of a mess.

Why do you need to cut this out?

You can modify the look by going into the CSS... Be careful -- you are messing with the checkout - this is mission critical stuff here. If you read the code, you'll see what it's doing... not too many ifs... you shold be able to modify the CSS to do what you want.

Good luck.