IChat randomly loads and wakes my machine from sleep.

iChat has been randomly loading and waking my machine from sleep. I can even be sitting in front of it and suddenly it will load and log me in AIM. Seems very virus like, but not sure it is. Anyone know what's going on?

Here's a more detailed description of what's happening.
After upgrading to 10.5.1, my iChat will load automatically at random times. It will even wake the computer out of sleep to load it. I was really frustrated that this was happening, and believing it was from having upgraded from 10.4, I decided to format my computer. After a clean wipe and updating to 10.5.1, iChat again is loading by itself randomly. I can quit iChat and go away for 30 minutes, come back, and it's launched again.
I have noticed on occasion when my iPhone is connected via the USB port that when it receives an e-mail it has been prone to launching iTunes and iChat, so this problem might be inter-related. However, I can have my iPhone disconnected and iChat will still load by itself. In fact, I quit out of iChat this morning, came to work and loaded iChat here at the office and it said I was logged in at another location. It must have logged in again at home. It's never done this in any other OS version for me.

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