ITunes will not stay minimized under Windows 7

I recently installed the full release version of Windows 7 (64-bit), along with iTunes 9 and its latest update. The issue is that, when minimized, iTunes constantly pops back up to the front, even though it is not requesting any user input. I've used iTunes 9 on the same PC when it was running Vista 64-bit and never encountered this issue, nor is any other application behaving this way under Windows 7.
Anyone else experience this? A Google search found some single posts in other forums from people experiencing the same issue, but with no responses.

Seems to have stopped - not sure why but I suspect it was getting stuck trying to find a couple of album covers after I imported my library (though there was no notice of this). Anyway, I walked through the entire library and added any missing covers and it seems to have stopped the behaviour.

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