Games CD appears on Desktop as Audio CD AND Game CD and launches iTunes

I have a number of game CDs that have worked previously with OS X in 'Classic' mode. However since the latest update to iTunes (7.4.2) whenever I insert them they appear on the Desktop as TWO CDs - one an Audio CD and the other the normally labelled game CD.
Even more weirdness, iTunes then auto-launches and asks me if I want to import the content of the Audio CD
**UPDATE thanks to the answer to another question I can now turn this prompt off but iTunes still auto-launches **
Can't seem to find a way to turn this annoying behaviour off and it's made at least one of the games (Settlers II - original version) unplayable as the game now cannot see the Settlers II disc
Message was edited by: Matt Gallagher

This is odd indeed. It sounds like the discs are definitely multi-session discs, and that's why you see separately mounted volumes on your Desktop.
As a workaround, you can go to System Preferences > CDs & DVDs and change what your computer does when you insert music CDs. In my case, I have it set to Ignore, but it sounds like you have it set to Open iTunes.
Have you checked whether it makes any difference if you start Classic before inserting the disc(s) in question? I would think that with Classic running, and your CDs & DVDs preferences set as I've suggested above, you should be able to double-click the session of the game disc NOT identified by the Finder as an audio CD (the one bearing the title of the game). From the resulting Finder window, you ought to be able to launch the game normally.

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