What's this "activateSettings" app getting in the way?

Frequently my restarts are interrupted with a msg along the lines of "Could not log out because the application 'activateSettings' did not quit."
What is it? Where is it? I've seen it on two different machines.

I need some help! When I start my Mac, I get error message "The application activeSettings quit unexpectedly". This is really screwing with all of my applicatios, causing them not to shut down without a Force Quit, and has rendered my finder nearly unusable. Has anyone had this problem? This happened the day after updating to 10.5.2.

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