Grey information displayed when a new song starts

i was using Itunes (7.0.1 i think it was) and i accidentally pressed some keys on the keyboard and since this at the start of every song a grey display of the songs artwork, name, artist, duration and rating comes up at the bottom of the screen in front of whatever i am doing. Can someone please tell me how to get rid of this. So far i have tried preplacing itunes with different and older versions (not relizing it was a preference), looked through all the shortcut to try and find out what i pressed, search through many of the support articles and gone through every menu option. Due to it disrupting my work (by distracking me and blocking my reading even just momentarily) i am close to throwing out all my itunes preferences and starting from scratch. Does anyone know what i can do to stop it.

If it doesn't relate to Growl then it is definitely Remote Buddy. I just fixed the same issue. In the preferences for RM, go to the behavior for iTunes. There should be an Options tab next to Button Mapping. Uncheck the box that says "Display information on currently playing songs." That should do it!

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