Address book starts up and dissapears again

Although I have disabled the startup of address book when logging in on my account via Preferences and Accounts.
Address book still appears at startup and instantly dissapears when login is finished.
How can I turn of this unwanted startup and quitting of the address book?
PB G4 12"   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

After deleting all my dashboard items, and adding them one by one , I found out that callwave free SMS widget uses addressbook.
So now I know who is the culprit
Thanks for the help
PePo
PB G4 12"   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

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