ITunes 7 Keeps Opening itself without my launching it!

OK, the wierdest thing keeps happening now, I close iTunes, it closes, then, a few minutes later it re-launches it self!
I'm rather paranoid about my music and my data so once a week I do a full backup to an extrnal hard drive of my documents, my music and my email. When I run the backup I make sure iTunes is closed as well as my mail client.
Today I closed iTunes as usual, started my backup and next minute iTunes was back! I closed it again, a few minutes later, back again. And so it has been going for about 15 minutes now. Does iTunes somehow sense that some program is accessing it's library and spring to life to protect itself or will I now never be able to turn off iTunes?
Anyone else having this most perplexing problem?
Cheers,
Bart.

Thought I would add into this. My iTunes just started opening by itself. It was open when I came in this morning, then after closing I notiv=ced every time I came back it was open again.
very strange
Kevin

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