ITunes and CD/DVD Drive Control

Hi..I can't use my CD/DVD drive for any reason UNLESS iTunes is running at least in the background. It's like iTunes has taken over complete control of my drive. I would like to be able to use the drive for other things (photos, etc.) without having to first run iTunes. Anyone have any ideas about this? Thanks,
Alan

Hi all,
I have a Satellite P30-110. I have tried assigning specific controls to the CD/DVD buttons of my laptop to Winamp but everytime I do it reverts to a default hotkey identifying code.
For example if I want the Play/Pause button to act as a hotkey for the Play button in Winamp and I enter it into the Hotkey setting it comes up as: 0x1770001 but when I click add it reverts to: 0x1000000
Can you tell me why this is or how to stop this from happening.
Thanks!

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