ITunes Disabling Dell Laptop media controls?

When I start iTunes, my zonealarm asks me if I want to allow iTunes to communicate my information to the internet. If I allow it, I can't use the mute function on my Dell 1405's media controls located at the front of the laptop. If I disallow and iTunes starts up unable to communicate with the internet, the controls work fine. I assume this stems from iTunes and not zonealarm but I could be wrong, Is anyone with a dell laptop encountering this and is there a way to prevent it?

I have the same problem with my HP laptop media controls. In iTunes 7.1.x, the volume keys on my laptop double registered whenever iTunes was open and not focused on the program, so the volume would go up/down twice at one push and when pressing mute, it would actually mute then unmute as you released the button. However, the play/pause, stop, ff/rev keys worked fine.
I've decided to go back to 7.1.1 until there's a fix, but I don't know how to do it without losing my settings. If anyone can help, please let me know! This is my original post for reinstallation: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=990100&tstart=0

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