>Does anyone know how to remove a sprite from the screen (I am actually
>using the new display libs)?  Currently I just move (hide) it beyond the 
>displayable play area that the player sees.

The real nasty way is to turn off the sprite DMA at the beginning of every
screen, you can do this with:

SetInt 5
  poke.w $dff096,%100000
End SetInt

If I knew enough about the new display liobrary, there might be a way to
write your own move instruction into the loop.