Wow. I never knew you could use the sphere ability to attach art. If you want to remove weapons, you have to edit the alpha channel in paintshop pro or photoshop.
And then there's some weapons that can't be removed. For most of those, I think you just have to get someone to do an .mdl edit for you; if you need either just ask in skinning or modelling forum. It may be a little harder and they may actually have to go intot he model and remove the weapon.