First nasty Apple experience in 22 years

That's how long I've been using a Mac. I've recently done an archive and install without preserving user settings.
Yesterday, I launched iTunes while doing something else, and forgot about it until today when I got a warning email from my ISP that I was about to exceed my data cap. And it only been a week since by new billing period began.
When I finally went to iTunes (7.2), it was sitting on the setup screen and busy downloading something. 7gigs of something. If I didn't quit it, it would have kept going I suspect.
Besides the extra cost of data, I was very disappointed that Apple software which I have always trusted to not behave irresponsibly, would work this way.
I would love for someone to tell me what iTunes cold have been downloading all this while.

I did click through the setup screens cancelling all options as I went, and when it finally went into iTunes, it looked like it was downloading some podcast. But I quit out quickly and didn't go back yet.

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