ITunes continuously re-opens

Hi,
This isn't much of a real problem as such but if there was a way to stop this from happening it would be much appreciated. Whenever I close down iTunes using the 'X' button in the corner it re-opens itself automatically between 3-5 times and then eventually after subsequent closings it stays exited. Is there anyway around this.
I'm using the latest version of iTunes for Windows XP and it happens when my 4G iPod is and isn't connected. Also happens both when and when there isn't a signal from my AirPort Express.
Thanks

The only program that I use which interfaces with
iTunes in such a way is MSN messenger when using the
'display which song I'm listening to' option. Though
iTunes will ask if it's ok to close if MSN is still
using the interface and I say yes.
Okay, now that's a bit unusual there...
I know how the MSN messenger song interface works, and how iTunes works, and the combination of the two really shouldn't cause iTunes to ask if it's okay to close.
The MSN Messenger song display functionality works by the player program (in this case iTunes) sending a message to a specific sort of window (in this case MSN) and telling it what song is playing.
The iTunes "ok to close" dialog box occurs when some other program is using iTunes COM interface and you try to close iTunes.
Now, as far as I know, iTunes tells MSN what song is playing, not the other way around. MSN doesn't access iTunes via the COM interface, to the best of my knowledge. I've written programs to talk to MSN (see the musikMSN plugin for musikCube), and I've written plenty of programs to interface with iTunes (dozens of scripts for starters), and all this leads me to think that there is some other program running which is hooked into iTunes, and it's not MSN.
The problem occurs
when MSN is and isn't in use though so would doubt
this is a problem?
This also agrees with my theory. When a program is talking to iTunes via the COM interface, iTunes starts up all by itself. If you closed iTunes, and some other program talked to it via COM again, iTunes would indeed start itself for no obvious reason.
So my bet is that there's some other program you are running that is talking to iTunes. I just don't know what it is. Like you said, FoxyTunes, the GD plugin, EvilLyrics.. there's plenty of other programs capable of talking to iTunes via COM.. Might take a look at what's running in the Task Manager and see if anything stands out.

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