Where did the stupid voice come from??

I don't know what my child did, but now my computer tells me EVERYTHING I DOING! If my cursor hovers over, say iTunes, a stupid little voice pipes up telling me I'm hovering over iTunes. OMG, this is driving me nuts
(Later) Okay I don't what the boy did (we'll just refer to him as "GFL*") but there is something called "VoiceOver Utility" and this seems to be the cause of the idiotic voiceover. I pulled it out of the utilities and the voice is gone. HOWEVER, the computer still makes beeps whenever I do anything. Arrrgh.
Here's something else very weird. The Apple drop down menu now has a lot of extra options. There are 2 shutdown options as well as 2 LogOut Brian options. What's going on?
The only thing I can think of is maybe 10.5.5 is a recent download. (I haven't had my computer one in the last few days.) And, dumb sound effects and voiceovers are an improvement? If so, how do I turn the beeps off? And how did GFL manage to turn on the voice? There was VoiceOver OutputRequest Log ZIP file on the desktop. Did he download it somehow? He'd need a password for that and that is beyond his 5 year old madskillz.
Any and all help and advice greatly appreciated.
Brian
*Grounded For Life

brian hardy1 (et al),
Oh, you think Voiceover is annoying, do you????
Try this.
Now, download it on a friend's Mac, hide it somewhere in an obscure place, then place it in their "Login Items." Nasty.
Scott

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