There are quite a few updates you'll probably have to do to get up to speed on Win7 so that's what's going on. Probably. And you've already customized the bottom task bar to hide the notification when it's inactive, right? Hopefully, before too long, it will be inactive soon except for the regular update Tuesdays once a month.

Ugh. I was afraid you were going to tell me that QuickTime was a necessary part of iTunes. Feh.