Wifi automatically shuts off when ethernet is connected, but I don't want that.

Hi all,
I'm the second user of a company-owned MacbookPro (circa 2008) running Lion. I occasionally need to connect my machine to both ethernet and wifi networks simultaneously. However, every time I do that, a script kicks in somewhere that not-so-helpfully turns off the Wifi network for me.
I get the following popup in the upper right corner:
http://imgur.com/5X6MW
Airport Status
Wired network detected. Toggling Wireless Off.
There is a similar popup that says it is turning the Wifi on if there is no ethernet cable connected.
Does anyone know where this is coming from and how to disable it? I'm guessing the previous user of the laptop installed a script, but I haven't been able to find it. I've been using this laptop since before Lion came out, and I don't remember it happening before Lion, but that may be because I didn't try doing two networks during that time period. It became noticable and annoying when I installed Lion though. At first I suspected this was some default behvaior in Lion, but I've googled for the text given in the message and didn't find any Lion-related complaints.
It looks a bit like a growl notification, but it happens even if I kill growl. I don't have anything that would obviously cause this in
System Preferences-->Users&Groups-->Login Items
The closest thing I can find on the web is stuff like this:
http://www.macworld.com/article/154976/2010/10/turnoffairportscripts.html
Explaining how to add a script that automatically turns Wifi on or off. I've looked on my machine for scripts in the places suggested though and don't see anything.
I've also grepped all over ~/Library and /System/Library for 'network detected', but didn't turn up anything.
Other places I should look? Could there be an automater script saved somewhere that would do this?
Thanks,
Malcolm

Ah ha! Found it. (Looked for it several times over the last few months, and of course finally tracked it down 30 minutes after posting the question).
My company network admins included that script in a package of stuff that got installed... probably when I was renewing my VPN certificate or something.
/Library/LaunchAgents had a reference to a folder elsewhere, and when I looked there I found togglewireless.sh
All squared away now... Thanks for reading.

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