Font doc that loads on desktop when I start up

I recently installed CS4 (upgrade from CS2). Ever since when I start up my G4 a file loads to my desktop and I do not know what it is. The file is named helvR08-ISO8859-2.pcf. It is an adobe file. when I click on it textedit opens, this is what reads:
fcp

On my machine, I have the following 2 files:
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/helvB08-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvB08-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz
What is likely happening is that somehow one of those files got registered to be one of your login items, and when you login, the file is being "opened" as if you double-clicked on it in the Finder. Because /usr/ and its subdirectories are owned by root and have read-only permissions, the built-in zip program of OS X can't expand the file to to the same folder as the original, so it instead expands it to your Desktop. (I believe that's the default behavior in Tiger and prior; in Leopard, the file is extracted in ~/Downloads/).
Running "/usr/bin/file" on the extracted ".pcf" file give the following information:
>/Users/mdouma46/Downloads/helvB08-ISO8859-2.pcf: X11 Portable Compiled Font data
The first 4 bytes of the file (aka the "cookie" or the file's "magic number") in Hex is 0x01666370, which if interpreted as ASCII text would be "fcp".
The "fcp" isn't for Final Cut Pro, but is actually PCF backwards (in other words, a 32 bit integer byte-swapped from Big-Endian to Little-Endian or vice versa).
Go to System Preferences, open the Accounts preference pane, click on the Login Items tab, and see if either of the files above are listed as login items. If they are, just remove them (not the file itself, just the setting to be a login item). If they aren't, then there is likely some other process on login that is indirectly opening that g'zipped file.
Since these files are a standard part of OS X's X11 installation, that this behavior appeared after installing Photoshop is most likely a mere coincidence.
Hope this helps...

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