Everytime I Restart Mac OS X Install ESD Mounts

Hi. Where is Mac OS X Install ESD coming from. Every time I restart Lion both on the main and external drive (my backup install), Mac OS X Install ESD mounts.
Thank you in advance.
Gbu.

Thanks again. I searched LaunchAgents, LaunchDeamons, and StartupItems in Spotlight, there weren't any. What could be loading this on startup? I had erased the Lion Recovery Partition and had merged that partition with OS X using some commands in Terminal.

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