ITunes 7.0.2 relentlessly relaunches after I quit it.

iTunes 7.0.2 relentlessly relaunches after I quit it. in 2 seconds.
only way to quit it is to log out / in - but once iTunes is launched, it prefers to stay that way.
help?

Re: iTunes 7.0.2 relentlessly relaunches after I quit it. .
Answered for now, unless problem returns.
It had started days ago.
The following did not help:
Disabled Sing That Tune! widget
Uninstalled Speedit and Core Duo Temp.
These were restored prior to discovering my hopeful fix(es):
The following seemed to help:
Disk Utility couldn't complete permissions nor disk verification. Rebooted in safe mode. Opened & closed iTunes 7.0.2 normally (Firefox 2.0 not used).
Rebooted normally. Cache files appeared in trash, not there before. Cool. Disk Utility: Verified Permissions and Disk, no repairs needed.
Opened & closed iTunes normally (Firefox again not used). Yay!
Macaroni had repaired permissions yesterday. I'd read iTunes no longer handles that properly, disabled it in Macaroni to leave iTunes alone for immediate future.
Began suspecting FoxyTunes 2.0.4 (current version) add-on for iTunes control from within FireFox 2.0 [Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0.]
Once FoxyTunes is activated iTunes WILL launch. I prefer that as I'm indicating I want to use iTunes.
But sure enough - I disabled FoxyTunes' 'Update Title and Volume on Startup'. This means Firefox 2.0 startup! It drove me crazy! Problem ALMOST solved.
However - once FoxyTunes is active (as above or by mouseover) and iTunes is quit, iTunes WILL Re-launch RELENTLESSLY after each time it is quit - until Firefox is quit!
I also set FoxyTunes to auto-hide as much of itself as possible, but left it in FireFox's status bar. For now.
I'm copying this to FoxyTunes. It seems iTunes should NOT be launched by FoxyTunes until a command is issued. Mousing over or viewing FoxyTunes menus should not do it.
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