Backup.app won't quit?

Has anyone seen this phenomenon with Leopard? My wife's new MacBook (with data migrated from an iBook) has Backup set to backup to her dot mac disk and no matter how many times I reinstall the app or delete settings or quit the program, it relaunches itself in about 5 seconds.
Any thoughts about how to solve this?
Much obliged,
Mick

Deleted your profile? How were you able to do that since there is no delete profile option. You can clear out the backup, turning off backup, but this wipeout does not wipe out you list of install apps so when you log back in the apps that were installed willbe resintalled. Palm Profile dose not backup apps but keeps a seperate log of apps installed and allows reinstall upon a resign into profile. Only exception is if the app was side-loaded onto the device it will come back but those apps should be free to reinstall.
The doctor is like a parial erase that also resintalles the webos so it will require resign into profile. Through your email address for your forum ID I was able to find 2 palm profiles that are still viable with paid apps on them so if you wanna try one of them to get the paid app back we can continue this conversation via Private Message so we are not publicly conveying whats in those profiles. Also would like to know which paid apps you are concerned with loosing so I can check the profiles to see if they are there afterall. Keep me posted.

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