Why Does My mac Show Alot of Programs Open When I Only Have 2 Programs

I Have A mac runing tiger and it has alot of programs runing on it when i only have the Acivity Monitor and the Screen Capture Open
This What I Have Open - http://tinypic.com/r/2nuhf28/4
Pls tell Me How To unistall Some of these programs Or Some What
Thanks

Mikenzb --
I see Niel has provided your solution!
The only thing I would add is right now, you'e selected to view "My Proceses."
If you change the button to view "All Processes" you'll have a better idea of the scope
of things actually going on. I restart my Mac about 1x/week just to clear out spider-webby
stuff, when I see that pie chart go to 1/4 green.
Just a thought.

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