Get archives in blog header - why?

[Ms Naughty]

So, in the header file there's this line
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=link'); ?>

Once the page is made it translates into a list of archives:
<link rel='archives' title='May 2007' href='http://www.msnaughty.com/blog/2007/05/' />
<link rel='archives' title='April 2007' href='http://www.msnaughty.com/blog/2007/04/' /> etc etc

This occurs above the <?php wp_head(); ?> bit.

Does it need to be there? I've got rid of the archives list in my sidebar coz I'm not that interested in giving people date-based archives anymore.

So I've just fiddled with my header and removed the archives bit with no obvious ill-effects. I've also moved the other link=rel and meta tags to under neath the wp_head bit with no ill effects either.

I'm doing this so my description and keywords are further up the header.

So, do you think this bit of editing will cause problems at some point?