Login Items wont stay removed

Hello People,
My First post on here so please be kind
I a running OS 10.6.2 on a Macbook Pro. I had set up some login items on my user account which work fine. However i would like to remove 1 of the items which it does but then if i log out and back in then they reappear. I cant seem to remove any of them they just come back whenever i log back in.
I do have a strange item at the top of the list named "Unknown" which is also the kind of file - it doesn't let me remove this it is just greyed out.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Thanks

musicwind has made a good suggestion. But since when you do that you will have to reset some preferences, I'd suggest just moving the file to your desktop, until you confirm the issue is solved. That way, in case it is not the problem you can move it back.
-mj

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