I have the following exporting options:
#+OPTIONS: date:t stat:nil timestamp:t num:nil toc:nil p:nil todo:nil

Two questions:

1. I did not notice an option that would remove check-boxes ([ ]) and
counters ([/]) from the output of the export. Is there a way to export
without these? (actually, I thought that stat:nil would do it, but it does
not have any effect.

2. The options date:t stat:nil timestamp:t do not have any noticeable
effect on the resulting pdf. The \date{\today} command does appear in the
latex file, but the date does not show in the pdf...