Double layer of drywall help?

I have vaulted ceilings in the living room kitchen and dining room and I want to remove a half wall that divides the kitchen from the living room. It has on 4x4 that goes to the ceiling on the end of the wall. I went in the crawlspace and there is no piling under that part although it does rest on a beam that runs parallel to the wall I want to remove. My feeling is the post is there purely to hold the wall from warbling since it does not connect to the ceiling except for the 4x4. Is it safe to say that this post isn't needed as load bearing. There is not another post in the identical location on the other span of the vault in the living room. I have included two pics that I hope will help. Thanks for the help in advance. Tim [ATTACH]20472[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]20473[/ATTACH]

We are working on some home improvement tasks, and started in the bedroom. After examining the walls we noticed that there were several (4 maybe?) layers of paint on TOP of wallpaper. We decided to do it the right way, or so we hope, by removing the wallpaper and then smoothing the walls and painting them. Under the wallpaper, it appears to be glue on top of the original textured and then unpainted drywall... so as we started in a small spot to remove the glue we could see the drywall paper getting wet and starting to rub off... bad! So the question is, now what? Do we really have to get the glue off and just be gentle about it? Is there some kind of paint/primer that will mix with the glue and form good seal maybe? Any suggestions? Another question- there are so many layers of paint the PaperTiger tool cant get deep enough.. so we are having to peel off dry wallpaper and then wet the paper left behind... a real pain. Thoughts on that one?