That's It! I use iTTool to put the name of the current tune in a small floating window. If I quit iTTools before I quit iTunes, iTunes quits as expected. The only mystery is that I had used iTTools for months before this problem started. Life is mysterious. Thanks again for solving this highly annoying problem - Daniel On Jul 11, 2004, at 3:55 AM, Adeline Moore wrote: > Daniel from e-mail address (dnyesno at pacbell.net) on Saturday, July 10, > 2004 wrote: > >> I am having a weird problem. I cannot get iTunes to quit so I can shut >> down my mac. It seems to quit, but immediately relaunches. The only >> way >> I can get it to quit is to force-quit. This happens when no CDs, >> iPods, >> or external discs are mounted. I am running the latest 10.3 and iTunes >> 4.6 (the same behavior happened with 4.5) >> >> Any ideas what is happening? > Do you have any scripts running that are forcing iTunes to reopen? I > have > a script that puts what I am listening to on iTunes at the bottom of my > email set as a Cron event. > > There was a time a while ago when I shut down my computer and before it > completed the task iTunes re-launched. I was stumped for days. Then I > remembered that I had set the script to check itunes every 45 sec. It > was > checking iTunes before the computer shut down and so had to relaunch > the > program. > > Now I know that is going on and I disable the Cron event before I shut > down the computer. > > -- > iMac :: 700 MHz PowerPC G3 :: 10.2.8 :: 512MB RAM :: iTunes 4.5 > > > I'm listening to Led Zeppelin "I Can't Quit You Baby" from: Led > Zeppelin > > > ---------- > Check out the iTunes email list FAQ > http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/iTunes.html > > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <iTunes-off at lists.themacintoshguy.com> > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > <iTunes-digest at lists.themacintoshguy.com> > Need help from a real person? Try. > <iTunes-request at lists.themacintoshguy.com> > > ---------- > $14.99 Unlimited Nationwide Mac Dialup and Mac Web Hosting from your > Mac ISP > Serious Mac Internet Solutions From NineWire! > http://macinternetaccess.com > > Keyspan | New Digital Media Remote, great for MP3 players and CD > players. > Dr. Bott | Now $49.00 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/keyspan.html> > > Cyberian | Support this list when you buy at Outpost.com! > Outpost | http://www.themacintoshguy.com/outpost.shtml >