Front row annoyance

Hey, I have a 2.0GHz White MacBook, with 1GB of RAM (not sure what difference that makes, but I might as well say it). Front Row has been pretty cool, works flawlessly and looks really nice. However, when viewing a movie, and JUST THAT, after I'm done viewing it, and exit out of Front Row, I see iTunes has launched in my dock. I never even went to the iTunes icon in Front Row, just the Movies, watched a movie, and left. Yet iTunes launched for some strange reason. I have duplicated this dozens of times, so I know it's not just some one time thing.
Any suggestions/ideas? I'd appreciate it, thanks.

You've got it in one. If you look at your pictures in
Front Row, you'll see that iPhoto has opened. Front
Row is just a frontend for various apps.
You need to upgrade to Quicktime Pro in order to play
fullscreen video using Quicktime, so Front row uses
iTunes to play video.
Don't ask me why Apple's video app doesn't play
fullscreen video, but their music app does!
Yeah, I knew that Front Row had to open certain apps to do things, but I didn't realize it was the irritating limitations set on Quicktime. That explains it then, thanks a bunch.

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