ITunes starts by itself and won't quit

I have researched this topic and not found an answer. My system is an imac running 10.5.6 and itunes8.
recently itunes launched for no apparent reason. we haven't used it in months. when i quit, even force quit, it immediately relaunches.
we have not installed any itunes related widgets.
on restart, itunes launched itself approximately an hour later, and will not quit.
i saw issues with a process called "genredetection" but that is not running per Activity Monitor.
Anyone else have this issue or know the cause?
Thanks!

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