Problem installing iPhoto 4

The hard drive on my PowerMac G4 (Quick Silver) recently went bad. I replaced the hard drive and installed OS X 10.3 instead of the original 10.1 that came with the G4. After installing the OS X updates, I realized that iPhoto 2 was installed and that my iPhoto library was created in iPhoto 4. I have iLife '04 with iPhoto 4 and in attempting to install I get the following message:
iLife cannot be installed on this computer.
This installation cannot proceed because one of the following applications is running:
iTunes
iPhoto
iMovie
Please quit these apps before installation.
None of these apps are running. Any suggestions? Thanks!
PM G4 (Quick Silver) Mac OS X (10.3.9)

That would depend on what you did to get it to quit. I'll guess that you "force quit" the application. If that's what you did, and since it is a "startup item", then it would be reasonable to assume that a system restart would do the trick.

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