Layout Confusion

I am using AuthLogic and ActiveScaffold together in a Rails App. Essentailly, through AuthLogic (using Railscast 167 tutorial) I create a username/password signon screen, which has a link in the upper right to allow one to Register should they not presently posses a username/ password. Very straightforward. If they click to Register, it takes then to associate/edit/.

Here is how my associate/edit/id looks

note that this is rendered from erb's in the views/associate directory, inside of /views/layouts/application.html.erb.

Note that I am using Active Scaffold. Here is how it looks when displayed from within the edit functionality of active_scaffold:

Notice that the "Register | Login" and copyright notice are incorporated into the inner edit form, because of /views/layouts/ application.html.erb. How can I set things up so that the inner form, for editing or creating a record, does not do this?

here is my associate_controller.rb :

class AssociateController < ApplicationController layout "application.html.erb"

  active_scaffold :associate do |config|       config.label = "Associates"       config.list.columns = [:lastname, :firstname, :username, :email, :branch]       #list.columns.exclude :comments       config.columns[:state].form_ui = :usa_state       config.columns[:country].form_ui = :country       list.sorting = {:lastname => 'ASC'}       config.actions.exclude :show #, :delete       config.actions.swap :search, :live_search

    end

        def new             @associate = Associate.new           end

          def create             @associate = Associate.new(params[:associate])             if @associate.save               flash[:notice] = "Registration successful."               redirect_to root_url             else               render :action => 'new'             end           end

          def edit             @associate = Associate.find(params[:id])#current_associate           end

          def update             @associate = Associate.find(params[:id])#current_associate             if @associate.update_attributes(params[:associate])               flash[:notice] = "Successfully updated profile."               redirect_to root_url             else               render :action => 'edit'             end           end end

here is my /views/layouts/application.html.erb :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd&quot;&gt; //<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> // <head> // <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %> // <%= active_scaffold_includes %> // <title><%= h(yield(:title) || @page_title ||"Untitled") %></

// <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'application' %> // <%= yield(:head) %> // </head> // <body> // <div id="container"> // <div id="user_nav"> // <% if current_associate %> // <%= link_to "Edit Profile", edit_associate_path(:current) %> | // <%= link_to "Logout", logout_path %> // <% else %> // <%= link_to "Register", :controller => "associate", :action => "new" %> | // <%= link_to "Login", login_path %> // <% end %> // </div>

// <% flash.each do |name, msg| %> // <%= content_tag :div, msg, :id => "flash_#{name}" %> // <% end %>

// <% if show_title? %> // <h1><%=h yield(:title) %></h1> // <% end %>

// <%= yield %>/ // </div> // <p>Copyright &copy; 2009/</p> // </body> //</html>