Deleted song keeps returning to library

I described this problem originally on this post as a song mysteriously replicating itself and automatically playing when iTunes launches. Here is what I've done so far:
physically deleted the directory the song was located and removed it from the system (emptied recycle bin and cleared it from the lib.) Looked after I did this, and the song and its associated folder were removed from the iTunes directory. Then searched the etire system for any reference to the file... nothing. Restarted iTunes: the file returned to the library and physically returned to the directory structure of the iTunes subdirectory.
deleted all references to the song again. deleted the iTunes library file and recreated the library file according to the online instructions. WHen I restarted iTunes to recreate the library, nothing was there except the phantom song! I looked and once again, it recreated the sub-directory structure for the artist / song.
deleted all references to the file again. deleted the library file again. uninstalled iTunes. deleted xml file. The only thing left was the actual directory which had all my music, except the phantom song I deleted and removed from the system. downloaded a fresh copy of iTunes. Installed. What appeared in the library after the install? you guesssed it, the phantom song.
This all started when I upgraded to version six, so I looked for a previous version of iTunes to download and could not find one.
Any insight? Know where I can find an older version of iTunes? Any ideas to keep Cyndi Lauper off of my freakin' computer!?!

Activity Window - is from the WINDOW menus on the menu bar in mail - this shows how the logging in, picking up mail, synchronizing mail etc is going.
Your mail keeps coming back because you are not waiting for the synchronization to finish.
You can also stop an activity by pressing the stop sign.
What may be happening is your mail is resynchronizing because you upgraded the software.
To check mail setting for an account - right click on its mail-box to edit the account.  Settings depend on the service you are syncing.  I only have 2 and Mac is different from my main mail account - Mac defaulted to never remove messages from the server - meaning it won't do an auto purge -- but will delete and purge them if you delete (wait for sync to occur) then using the mailbox menu - erase deleted items in that account or all accounts.
You can also choose to have deleted items moved to the trash folder in mail -- remember you have to erase them to get rid of them permanently - and before you do that you have to wait for the synchronization to occur.
(Took a while to get this in and hope it takes because apple keeps cutting out to page not found)

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