i have all my music on a firewire 80GB. what's itunes helper? i reinstalled itunes and deleted all the crap like before again. works now - just a really irritating thing to find happening again. by removing itunes helper will it work now...? thanks for pointing me toward startup items - i did not know it was there, and wondered just how many programs were running without my knowledge - it had seemed a bit windoze-y. it's all clean again now, though