Gorilla, if you got a free phone, there IS a contract, thus contracted feature. You have 3 options to remove that required feature:

1) Return the Cliq
2) Keep the cliq, but buy some cheap phone from an official store (online, t-mobile store -- but not walmart, radio shack, etc). May have to wait 30 days before they let you do this. New phone, new contract, new contract tems (eg, no required web)
3) replace required web with required unlimited messaging - if you are on a family plan, then you will have to remove family messagign for this to work.

Option 3 is probably the easiest, though.