Unwanted program automatically launching at startup

[Steve Zatz]

> AFAIK, all you have to do is close rythmbox, go to the log out screen,
> check the "save settings" checkbox, logout, login - DONE.
> You should close all programs, in fact, except for those that you want
> to start at startup.

I am not seeing the save settings option when I log out of dapper but
I did find the following file:

 ~/.gnome2/session

which seems to contain current session information and when I deleted
the lines related to rhythmbox, the problem of rhythmbox starting
automatically went away.