Certain applications re-open at login even after closing them

Hi there esteemed support-forum users! Hopefully someone might be able to help me out with this before I resort to the Genius Bar.
I'm running Lion on my new MBP (13" 2.7GHz i7 4GB, not that I think it matters) and have been impressed with the GUI improvements overall, and most of the features it offers. However, there are a couple of small niggles which are gradually escalating into annoyances.
The first of which, is that on login I'm greeted with VLC, iTunes, and Safari all auto-running. I assumed this was due to Lion's 'reopen windows' feature, since none of them are in the 'login items' list on sysprefs. However, on restarting with the check-box for reopening windows turned off, they still appear. This regardless of whether I manually quit the applications first.
Also, after these applications open there's a 30 second or so pause, before a Finder window opens up directed at a random folder inside the package contents of the Steam application. Similarly to the applications, this window appears even if I manually close it, turn off 'reopen windows', and restart.
Any help greatly appreciated. Bit disappointed that there are problems this obvious with Lion (can't really use the "it's a brand new OS" excuse anymore).
Cheers!

Hi there,
Thanks for the help. It didn't fix it: but I have since worked out what the problem was.
As well as the login issues, Finder was consistently forgetting that I had changed my desktop background to something other than the Lion-galaxy. I had thought this was a different issue: but then I noticed that between logins it had also forgotten my Finder-side-bar rearrangement and some Firewall changes.
I guessed such changes would be stored in the user library, and I had been having some problems with permissions previously. So I un-hid the User->Library folder and ran 'ACL Repair' on it. Sure enough everything now works smoothly. I hope!

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