Frozen Seagate Registration screen upon startup

I wonder if anyone could tell me how I might stop a screen for the registration of a Seagate external drive to keep from popping up frozen each time I boot my G5. I never installed the Seagate software though I have used the drive for storage.
What I get upon startup is a not responding Mac Installer and also a frozen program for Seagate Registration. I can force quit those two programs. I can't simply register the software because the installer comes up frozen, and then when I force quit the installer, the registration screen asks me to install the software, but it won't install because the installer hangs.
I don't want to install the software anyway. I just want to get rid of the registration screen permanently. I tried deleting anything having to do with Seagate in my application folder and preferences. But I wonder if I could be missing a place where I should delete something.
Any help appreciated!

I am a little late to this party, but I have similar issues with this Seagate software which I believe was wreaking havoc with my iMac ....and external hard drives. It was causing freezes at login requiring hard reboots. This morning after re-booting and subsequent to an unrequested diagnostic check a dialogue appeared saying that my new LaCie 2Tb HD was unreadable. I "ejected" the unreadable drive and continued on to a succesful login only to be met by the dreaded Seagate registration pop-up. I clicked on remind me in 14 days and proceeded to search for the source of this pernicious software. I followed celiacee's direction to the Seagate's knowledge base http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/com.instranet.InstraServlet?Command=com.instra net.CmdDocVote&Redirect=/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp&DocId=215771&UEL_Doc Vote_DocId=215771&UEL_DocVote_Rating=4&UEL_DocVote_VotedDocExtIds=&Module=selfse rvice I did not delete the start-up item, as suggested, right away. I right clicked on this start up item and selected "Reveal in Finder" and discovered multiple hidden seagate files including Seagate software bundle install packages. I intend to delete the relevant files and hopefully this will end my relationship with Seagate. I had returned the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 2 TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive STAC2000100 (Black) 13 days ago to Staples. Note the pop-up appeared 14 days later.

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