Disabled in Startup Items, but still running

Question

Hi all,
During a recent use of Activity Monitor, I noticed Palm Desktop Background was running and using about 1% CPU.
Not a big deal, but it is disabled it in my account in Startup Items.
I also have disabled Transport Monitor.
I don't use my Palm for a while now, but didn't remove the software (just in case of...).
Moving The Palm software to the trash and restarting stopped the Palm Desktop Background program (as expected).
Putting it back in the Applications folder and restarting, did let it run again.
So, there must be another reason to 'trigger' it, apart from the Startup Items in my account.
I looked in various places, known to me:
~/Library/StartupItems
~/System/Library/StartupItems
~/Users/MyUsername/Library
but couldn't find a relevant item which causes the culprit to run.
Like I said, it's no big deal (1% CPU), but it annoys me enough to write this post.
Does anyone know other places to look for or other mechanisms that cause the described behaviour?
Any help is appreciated.
M
17' iMac fp 800 MHz   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Answer 1

littleshoulders,
Thanks for for the reply.
I occasionaly run a classic application. For that purpose I have a minimal system 9.2.2 installed, with a few startup items.
I know Palm Desktop can also run in classic mode, but I never used it that way.
And afaik, classic startup items only are activated when classic is running, are they?
I noticed another thing. I use a program called 'KeyCue' (It finds keyboard shortcuts in applications).
It always runs in the background, but I appear to have it disabled in my account in the Startup Items. In the preferences of this app., I have it set to automatically start at login (that's what I want).
Despite disabling in my account, it does run in the backgound.
So, what 'mechanism' is telling OS X to launch the app.
Makes me wonder if Palm Desktop uses a similar 'trick', but I could not find a setting in the preferences of PD.
Any suggestion?
M
17' iMac fp 800 MHz   Mac OS X (10.3.9)