Applications launch automatically at startup

Microsoft Word recently started launching itself on startup, which isn't a problem particularly, just a bit annoying. I don't think it's a Microsoft thing because Mail went through a period of doing the same a few weeks back. I've checked the Startup Items folder, and there's nothing in it - does anyone have any suggestions for what else could be causing this to happen?
macbook pro 2.16ghz Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Apple Menu / System Preferences / Accounts / Login Items.
Nuke it.
Scott

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> Hi all! I hope you can help me out on this one. We have maybe 60 or so
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> tow or three different computers not start the application launcher on
> startup.I will have them restart the PC and usually, it starts up the
> next time. A couple of times it has not worked and I had to re-install
> Zen to get it to work. The same workstation will have the same problem
> maybe a couple months down the road. We are all running Windows XP SP2.
> Is there any issue or anything we could possibly do to find out why this
> happening? It is usually a quick fix to get it working, but the people
> FREAK OUT! when it doesn't work and I always like to avoid that.
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