Is there any way to remove these alerts that say something like "You are about to update 1 record"? I have no need for them because I implemented my own alert.
Under Tools -> Options, there is a tab labeled Edit/Find. On the right there are 3 check boxes under the heading of Confirm. These control the msg's you are talking about.
The advised step would to be to turn them on and off with code rather than in the Options otherwise you might get miss out on a message that's important.