ITunes starts automatically all the time

I have a new Toshiba laptop with Vista Home Premium running iTunes version 8.0.2.20. My problem is that iTunes starts up by itself constantly. I have turned it off in msconfig, unchecked it on all my iPods, but it still opens anytime I put in a cd or dvd or connect an external hard drive. Can anyone help? It's getting VERY annoying.

i think you will lose your settings but you will lose your music (unless you know all of it is located in *another folder on your computer* (i.e my music)).
I think, if all your music is saved in a folder (that is created when itunes is installed) it might delete the folder ( *and all your music* ) if you uninstall itunes. ( *but double check this* (im sure someone will confirm)). Oh and you will almost certainly lose your settings, but again it depends where itunes saves them, and if they are automatically deleted when you uninstall itunes (From Apple's point of view if you want to uninstall itunes whats the use for kepping the settings ,if you don't have the program)
Are most of the CD's and DVD's Blank when you put them in? Or are they CDs or DVDs you havn't installed yet on itunes?
Alex
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