Dashboard playing random web clips - help!

This is by far and away one of the weirdest problem's I've ever had with a computer. Nothing dire, but it would be nice to get dashboard back to normal.
For reasons I don't understand, when I open dashboard it plays audio from a DailyShow clip (the same one) every single time, it seems to seek it out on the web. I removed all widgets, installed the 10.5.3 update, and it still is happening. I've restarted my computer several times, it is still happening. My guess is that dashboard "caught" a script while I visited a website, and now it can't let go of it.
As much as I love the Daily Show, does anyone out there know how to get things back to normal? Is there a way to completely remove dashboard, and then start again from scratch? Or is there a way to seek out this really annoying audio at its root?

Thank you very much!
I couldn't actually find the file, but that audio kept playing. So I made a web widget of your comment from yesterday, and for whatever reason that killed the feed.
Thanks!!!

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