Question: I have a document library containing a lot of personal information. Originally only admins could see the library but now it has been decided that users need to see their own information. Admins have Full Control and users have Read. The default view shows only documents where the user's name appears in a certain field. So Default View, Name="[Me]" so they can only see their own files. This works fine but it doesn't stop users from opening the library in Explorer view. How can I stop them doing this?

Any suggestions?

Note: I do not have access to Central Administration

Answer: 
^ Disregard the first, I think I misread your question. The answer in this link may help you instead: <http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/gu-IN/sharepoint2010customization/thread/5faea89f-f3ea-4b4b-b4c0-2c0cc7e6ceee>
Fooling around with the SharePoint masterpage is a delicate matter if you don't understand its structure. Thus trying to remove the Quicklaunch from the masterpage is not a good idea.

What I can recommend you do is to hide the quicklaunch with some CSS, and then on the pages that you actually want it to appear you insert preferably a HTML Form Web Part in which you insert some CSS to make it appear again. And if you want it to be placed any other place than its original place use some javascript to move it to the position of your choice.