Stop bringing opening applications to the front automatically?

I have several apps that open and run automatically as part of a backup sequence, notably Mail and Automator. It's extremely frustrating to be in the middle of typing an email or password and suddenly I'm looking at the Mail opening sequence, then I switch back to my browser then suddenly I'm punted into Automator.
I have an absolute LOATHING of having my computer tell me what I should be paying attention to. Is there a way to STOP opening programs from being brought to the front?

Why not just have Mail open at login and mark the Hide checkbox? It will continue to get mail all day in the background. I don't know if you came over from Windows, but you can leave apps running all day. Mine run for weeks.
If you really want to do this, use this applescript. You'll have to change the name of your "Gmail" account if it is not actually "Gmail" like mine.do shell script "open -g -a 'Mail'"
tell application "Mail"
check for new mail for account "Gmail"
end tell
Save it as a script (in Script Editor) and set the Alarm in iCal to Run Script…

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