Cannot force quit itunes

Recently, starting with version 4.8 on some occasions itunes will 1. appear to quit when quitting but if I try to open it again I find itunes has not quit it only looks like it has. The menu at the top shows it as a running application, the little triangle in the dock shows it as a running application hold down the mouse and the message "Application not responding" and force quit as an option yet when I force quit from either the dock or keyboard itunes will not and does not quit. After several attempts to force quit I have to restart a royal pain!!! What in the wide wide world of sports is going on here?

Michael hello,
welcome to the Apple Discussions there is something else running that wants to use iTunes, shut down 1st and then quit...
The most likely candidates will be the iTunes widget in dashboard or a plugin or another program or script... use Activity Monitor from Utilities and show 'active Processes' this will tell you what is running...
take care Michael.... TP

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