After spending some time trying to figure out how to get rid of sponsor links in a fast way across an entire 'static' site, I (finally) discovered Dreamweaver can successfully use Regular Expressions to find the list of everchanging styles of links, whether they be banners or different text.
This goes in the 'Search For' box when finding within your source code option.
Code:
<a(.*?)(SOMETHING_IN_URL_UNIQUE_LIKE_YOUR_AFF_ID)(.*?)">(.*?\s*?.*?)</a>
If you want to save some of the data just use $1, $2, $3, respectively for each set of parentheses. If you wanted to keep the linking text(or image) you would use $4 somewhere within your 'Replace With' box. Of course if you are using banners using $4 will just leaved an unlinked sponsor banner.
Anyway, I know it's nothing special, but might save someone some time.
Oh, and if you use Dreamweaver this url might come in handy before your next crash.
http://mm-exporter.joexx.de/