Sorry I did not see this post until tonight.
There are three places to setup options for articles:
1) Global
2) Menu
3) Article
When you create a menu item for an article, you can override the defaults which is what I did for the “Club Registration” article. If you go to the the user menu -> website registration, then click on the Options tab, you will be able to change whether to show # of hits, author, etc…
I choose not set these settings at the global level and override them at the menu or article level because I thought it would nice to see this information for the “Articles” section.
…Mike