SP 2010 Publishing Sites Without Workflows

We just did the upgrade on an old 2007 site to get it up to 2010.
We had a pages library which required user's to go through the approval
process just to publish!  Egads lots of pain for our users. 

Thanks to the grumpy guru at Publishing Sites Without Workflows

Solution:
Navigate to the Pages library (View all site content for example). Click on the Library tab then Library Settings. Under General settings, click on Versioning settings. For “Require content approval for submitted items?” select the No radio button. That’s it!