did you try disabling the stalk in the player configuration?

No, I didn't think about that, as I thought it was a hijack feature, which I don't have installed.

No, it's a standard player feature, visible in the "Configure Player" screen in emplode. It has three options: Righthand, Lefthand, and None. If you don't have access to emplode or Jemplode, you can edit the config.ini directly (via serial I suppose since you don't have hijack installed...).