Itunes tries to launch itself (Mavericks)

My iTunes tries to launch itself if:
The mac has recently restarted
The mac is left alone for 5 minutes with no apps running other than what it starts up with (e.g. dropbox, evernote, caffeine, etc)
The external hard disk containing the itunes library is NOT connected.
I haven't noticed this behaviour if:
The mac has recently restarted
The external hard disk containing the itunes library IS connected.
(which is to say, iTunes doesn't seem to launch - or if it does, it's quitting itself too).
I can live with it, just be nice to know what the heck might be going on?

I can't help, but I am having the exact same problem with Windows Vista. I have had Vista for the past year, and if I have both my account and my wifes account logged in, when I start itunes under my account it also tries to start on my wife's account with the message as previously stated. I have constantly been hoping for an update which would take care of this, but today I just installed 9.2, and I still have the same problem.
I have also tried many different things to fix the issue, including uninstalling and reinstalling,making sure I am using the 64 bit version of itunes (that is the version of Vista I have). Nothing works! Any solution would be greatly appreciated, as I am forced to log my wife off every time I want to use itunes.
I should also mention that itunes is the only application which has this problem.

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