Well... yeah if you want to avoid the ghosts, that would be the easiest way to do it. [But why would you want to?] They really aren't that bad though! Ghosts just have kind of a bad rep which... I guess isn't entirely undeserved. But there are plenty of good ghosts out there.

Hopefully the armguard thing will work out for you. I wish I had thought of that sooner, I would have saved myself a lot of bite marks a couple years ago...