Tom.
Thanks for the prompt reply. The changes to the guest folder fixed it so that guest could not add,edit and delete. Didn't understand which top menu and which template to remove. The logout function has to remain for the staff folder.

It makes sense. You already removed the login/logoff feature, so the logoff link shouldn't work. Please remove the top menu from the template.

>Didn't understand which top menu and which template to remove.

So you are working on "guest" folder, right? Then the template path should be web/guest/tpl.(tablename).search.inc.php Open the template in a text editor and remove any html tags you don't want to display.