PSE automatically launches on Mac OS

All of a sudden whenever I turn on or log on to my iMac OS X, PSE 6.0 automatically launches. It never used to do this. The icon is on my dock and just starts bouncing and launching and it's driving me crazy. There is no place I can find in PSE preferences to turn this off. Help!

There is nothing at all in PSE that could do this, but I bet it's the Adobe Updater that's causing it: look in the dock a minute or so after PSE launches. Do you see a white rectangle there? That's the adobe updater. To stop it, since you probably already clicked on Later or something sometime to make it do this, you'll need to let it run, then go to the Updater window and you'll see a Preferences button. Click that and turn off auto updating. It's just a nuisance and the only thing it ever successfully updates is Adobe Reader, not PSE.
If that's not it, somehow PSE got into your startup items folder. System Preferences>User Accounts>Login Items.

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