ITunes 7 automatically relaunches after quit.

I have the same problem on both my intel mac mini and my MacBook Pro. The problem is worse on my mini as iTunes can hardly stay closed for 30 seconds and usually will relaunch immediately after quitting. The MacBook Pro tends to wait about 3-5 minutes after I quit to decide and launch iTunes - especially when I'm trying to play a game or anything else full screen, this is extremely annoying as it takes the full screen item, puts it in a window, and forces the machine's focus to iTunes.
Any idea what might be causing this? I thought it might be autolaunching from detecting a fake ipod, but I unplugged my ipod and both machines kept launching iTunes. I even unplugged the USB cable from the computer to see if that might help, but no matter what I try, the problem still persists and iTunes has already launched twice in the time that I have written this.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

iTunes related Widgets can cause these problems.
Disable them and see if this helps.
Other users reported they could enable them again, without the problem returning.
hope this helps.
M

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