diff --git a/inc/parser/handler.php b/inc/parser/handler.php
index 4653cf603264729ba9a0fe0a2542f6458863b858..dc5315fdd203f98bc9bb81eea95fb7e3a765fbde 100644
--- a/inc/parser/handler.php
+++ b/inc/parser/handler.php
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ class Doku_Handler {
 
     var $meta = array(
         'section' => FALSE,
-        'toc' => TRUE,
-        'cache' => TRUE,
     );
 
     var $rewriteBlocks = TRUE;
@@ -115,7 +113,7 @@ class Doku_Handler {
     }
 
     function notoc($match, $state, $pos) {
-        $this->meta['toc'] = FALSE;
+        $this->_addCall('notoc',array(),$pos);
         return TRUE;
     }
 
diff --git a/inc/parser/renderer.php b/inc/parser/renderer.php
index a9c86c3f52a9ea9ad21b1eecad39d2122a356b73..303af3db3a340e4663f90ef9315615377839f77b 100644
--- a/inc/parser/renderer.php
+++ b/inc/parser/renderer.php
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ require_once DOKU_INC . 'inc/pluginutils.php';
 class Doku_Renderer {
     var $info = array(
         'cache' => TRUE, // may the rendered result cached?
+        'toc'   => TRUE, // render the TOC?
     );
 
 
@@ -20,6 +21,10 @@ class Doku_Renderer {
         $this->info['cache'] = FALSE;
     }
 
+    function notoc() {
+        $this->info['toc'] = FALSE;
+    }
+
     //handle plugin rendering
     function plugin($name,$data){
         $plugin =& plugin_load('syntax',$name);
diff --git a/inc/parser/xhtml.php b/inc/parser/xhtml.php
index a54e5bcaba6747e31d4b81ab78aa781d8677460c..9950f28cec033fcb8624c111d5cb05d180e75719 100644
--- a/inc/parser/xhtml.php
+++ b/inc/parser/xhtml.php
@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ class Doku_Renderer_xhtml extends Doku_Renderer {
         }
 
         // prepend the TOC
-        $this->doc = $this->render_TOC().$this->doc;
+        if($this->info['toc']){
+            $this->doc = $this->render_TOC().$this->doc;
+        }
     }
 
     /**
@@ -98,7 +100,7 @@ class Doku_Renderer_xhtml extends Doku_Renderer {
      * @author Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
      */
     function render_TOC(){
-        if(!count($this->toc)) return '';
+        if(count($this->toc) < 3) return '';
         global $lang;
         $out  = '<div class="toc">'.DOKU_LF;
         $out .= '<div class="tocheader toctoggle" id="toc__header">';
@@ -175,7 +177,6 @@ class Doku_Renderer_xhtml extends Doku_Renderer {
         $hid = $this->_headerToLink($text,'true');
 
         //handle TOC
-//FIXME        if($this->meta['toc'] &&
         if($level >= $conf['toptoclevel'] && $level <= $conf['maxtoclevel']){
             // the TOC is one of our standard ul list arrays ;-)
             $this->toc[] = array( 'hid'   => $hid,