I started working with Magento this week and I'm trying to create a new theme. Following the ["Designing for Magento"](http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/how-to/designing/designing-for-magento) article of the wiki, I tried to remove the Popular Tags block from the index view, adding this line to local.xml on magento\app\design\frontend\default\mytheme\layout:

```
<remove name="tags_popular"/>

```

I don't why, but the tags are still there while if I do the following the language switcher disappears:

```
<remove name="store_language"/>

```

I also tried this to no effect:

```
<reference name="left">
    <action method="unsetChild"><name>tags_popular</name></action>
</reference>

```

I even deleted tag.xml and the tags are still there!

I know that I can get rid of them disabling the Mage\_tag in the backend, buy I want to understand why this is not working.

Thanks!