Any Microsoft Infopath pros here? Got a question about data validation!

If there are any Infopath experts reading, I’d love to know if there’s any possible way to eliminate the little red asterisk that shows up in data validation fields on forms. I understand from reading many other sources that this is part of a standard in either XML, SQL, or .NET development. I’m by no means a developer or programmer, but why does this have to be on there? Just to tell the user that the data needs to be verified? It’s a bit distracting considering there’s already an inline error message or window that can pop up to tell them this if they don’t enter a piece of data correctly … so what the hell do we need the asterisk for?

It’s just really irritating me … isn’t there any way to get rid of it?