Itunes keeps launching automatically

Any ideas why it's doing this and how I can stop it?!
It's a little annoying.
Powerbook G4 12 1.33 SD Mac OS X (10.4.7)

There are at the moment 108 Widgets listed at the Apple Widget downloads page in the Music category.
I guess at least half of them are iTunes related. There are well and less well programmed ones (even rubbish). I consider it bad programming when a Widget calls iTunes when it is not running and decides to launch it.
Obviously there's a background process running in the Widget that requires iTunes to be active and the Widget 'decides' to launch iTunes.
If you like the Widget, you might try to contact the programmer, asking to change that behaviour.
M
17' iMac fp 800 MHz 768 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.7) Several ext. HD (backup and data)

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