Restart Lion without applications opening

Every time I restart my computer, iTunes and BBC iPlayer start automatically even though I have disabled the preference in the system preferences, general, and untick the reopen windows box on logging out. Is there a preference file that I can delete to get Lion to do a 'blank' restart?
The applications are not in the login items under user and groups preferences either. It seems that Lion is 'stuck' at a point that the BBC iPlayer crashed and restarts with the same problem, making it impossible to launch, delete or reinstall the iPlayer. I can get it to work for a while, but everytime I log out and in again, the problematic situation returns with iPlayer opening automatically, into the 'crashed' state.
Thanks for you help!
Francois

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