ITunes opens automatically after file downloads - HOW TO FIX?

Hi all,
don't no wether it's my new MacBook or iTunes 10, but every time I download a music file from the internet it automatically opens, and starts playing, in iTunes.
Even if iTunes is closed it opens it up and starts playing..
I really want this to stop and just manually add the songs to iTunes.
Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks in advance.

Its not Itunes, its Safari. It has a setting for "automatically open safe files" after download. So it opens them in itunes. If you disable that setting, you should be fine.

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