ITunes Launches Automatically?

Hi folks,
I've read a few postings about this but can't find a solution.
In the last couple of days, iTunes has begun to launch by itself. When I quit it, it launches again immediately, sometimes appearing in the doc as a semi-transparent icon (doubt whether that matters).
In the terminal, a "ps -alx" shows iTunes being launched by launchd. So I've looked in the various Library/LaunchItems and LaunchDaemons folders for anything obvious that might suggest a 3rd-party app opening iTunes for its own use...however nothing obvious jumps out.
I don't expect anyone to be able to tell me "that's why" given the lack of info, but I'm looking for suggestions how to sleuth the problem...e.g., if there's a way of listing the full process execution path. I'm UNIX literate and quite happy to wander there if someone has ideas.
Thanks
Tony.
Message was edited by: Welsh Baloney

I've had this problem a few times myself, and so I have a few things you might want to try:
1) Try repairing disk permissions, go to App folder, then Utilities, then click repair disk permissions.
if that doesn't work, try turning off the itunes widget, or any related itunes widgets. (this is what I'm trying for myself because it just started happening again, and so far it hasn't popped up.) so go to your dashboard, click "plus," then click on "manage widgets" and lastly once the box pops into view find the itunes one and deselect it.
I hope this helps a bit.

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Apple Application Support 1.5.1
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