Can't stop apache Daemon

["mike" <mike@heri.sd57.bc.ca>]

Hi,

I noticed all these weird apache processes running.
Here's the output of 
# ps aux |grep apache

root       392  0.0  2.9  6956 5592 ?        S    16:34   
0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
root       400  0.1  3.1  7044 6008 ?        S    16:34   
0:06 /usr/sbin/apache
root       427  0.0  2.9  6956 5588 ?        S    16:35   
0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
root       435  0.0  3.1  6956 5916 ?        S    16:35   
0:01 /usr/sbin/apache
root       436  0.0  1.2 70484 2392 ?        S    16:35   
0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
www-data   437  0.0  1.5 70624 2856 ?        S    16:35   
0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
www-data   438  0.0  1.4 70492 2688 ?        S    16:35   
0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
www-data   439  0.0  1.3 70492 2496 ?        S    16:35   
0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
www-data   440  0.0  1.5 70624 2860 ?        S    16:35   
0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
www-data   441  0.0  1.2 70492 2412 ?        S    16:35   
0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
root       608  3.3  3.6  8104 6984 ?        S    17:11   
0:42 /usr/sbin/apache
root       628  1.2  3.8  8352 7276 ?        S    17:17   
0:11 /usr/sbin/apache
root       636  3.4  3.5  7700 6640 ?        S    17:20   
0:24 /usr/sbin/apache
root       663  0.6  3.3  7560 6344 ?        S    17:24   
0:03 /usr/sbin/apache
root       665  3.6  3.4  7568 6496 ?        S    17:24   
0:18 /usr/sbin/apache
root       675  0.8  3.2  7292 6092 ?        S    17:28   
0:02 /usr/sbin/apache
www-data   678  0.0  1.2 70492 2412 ?        S    17:29   
0:00 /usr/sbin/apache

Some processes are owned by root, some by www-data.
If I stop apache (/etc/init.d/apache stop) then the processes
owned by www-data are killed but the root ones still exist.
Has anyone seen this before?
I can kill the remaing apache processes but they come back once I start the
apache daemon.

Running Woody, with apache 1.3.26

Thanks
Mike