ITunes 6, WinXP, port 5353

Question

my iTunes insists on trying to access port 5353 every so often, no matter what I do. I've gone through the iTunes preferences three times now, disabling anything having anything to do with network traffic, and still failing. I have disabled sharing my music, accessing other people's shared music, stupid apple wlan speakers that only work with iTunes, and disabled pod casts, I couldn't care less about them. It seems the macs in my network are bombarding my machine, too, with the same annoying feature. Oh well.
How do I tell iTunes not to try to access that network port, ever, for any reason? By uninstalling it? If the options are either uninstall or blocking it permanently from my software fire wall, I rather uninstall it and find a software that does what I tell it to, and nothing else. Too bad that probably means I have to throw away my 40GB iPod, but that's life.

Answer 1

Yes, I saw that 5353 was used for Bonjour/music sharing. However I have uninstalled that service...iTunes keeps using it, though.
(apologies, working from potentially-unreliable memory here, filtered through a lack of basic understanding of the technology ... most of the Snoop Dogg and toonz posts i saw on this have been in threads deleted recently.)
my understanding is that all itunes versions with music sharing apart from 5.0.0.35 contained a cut-down "internal" version of the Bonjour/Rendevous technology. 5.0.1.4 reverted back to the version of the internal service used by 4.9.
so i figure that 4.9 version of the internal service (or something similar) is still going on with 6.0.x.
love, b