Apple's ink preference option, randomly appears 2008 Mac Pro???

Ink or inkwell. Is Apple's own handwriting recognition program It is included in leopard and is only available if your mac detects the presence of a wacom tablet.
I don't have a wacom tablet, nor have I ever used one. Yet the ink icon has just recently began appearing randomly. A small menu icon, appears next to the volume control in the menu bar. It also appears under system preferences between keyboard and mouse and the print and fax preferences.
The ink icon and preference option will just mysteriously also disappear within a few minutes.
I don't have a wireless card in my mac pro. I also double checked to see if all bluetooth options are turn off. I have two hard drives both with separate installations of OS X. This has happened on both installs.
The only thing new is a airport extreme base station. The airport is being used by only two computers my 2008 mac pro and a imac out in the living room. Both are using ethernet no wireless.
At first I suspected the airport was picking up a stray signal from a neighbor using a wacom tablet.
But I think thats unlikely since any wireless tablet would be using bluetooth.
I did also upgrade to ilife 09. Again I don't see how ilife 09 could cause trouble like this.
I have googled to see if anyone else may have experienced anything like this. I have found nothing helpful.
Any one have any ideas To what might cause this?

Anyone?
Just today at the early A.M. my mac pro woke from sleep
May 6 03:23:38 johns-mac-pro kernel[0]: Wake reason = UHC3 EHCI
May 6 03:23:38 johns-mac-pro kernel[0]: System Wake
May 6 03:23:38 johns-mac-pro kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5
May 6 03:23:38 johns-mac-pro kernel[0]: USB (EHCI):Port 6 on bus 0xfd connected or disconnected: portSC(0x101803)
May 6 03:23:38 johns-mac-pro kernel[0]: USB (UHCI):Port 2 on bus 0x5d connected or disconnected
May 6 03:23:38 johns-mac-pro kernel[0]: IOBluetoothHCIController::terminateWL .. done
+See how it mentions bluetooth?+
+Here is what a normal wake from sleep looks like for me+
May 6 05:39:51 johns-mac-pro kernel[0]: System Sleep
May 6 12:50:54 johns-mac-pro kernel[0]: Wake reason = EHCI
May 6 12:50:54 johns-mac-pro kernel[0]: System Wake
May 6 12:50:54 johns-mac-pro kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5
May 6 12:50:54 johns-mac-pro kernel[0]: USB (EHCI):Port 5 on bus 0xfd has remote wakeup from some device
All bluetooth options are turned off. I have no bluetooth devices nor have I ever used one with this mac. I also have wake for ethernet administrator disabled. I also checked to see if their were any scheduled wake events.
Just before this morning on the advice from Apple care I did both a PSM and PRAM reset. To see if that would element the random appearing ink icon. From My first post.
I think Their is a problem with my bluetooth chip receiving signals when is not sopped to. The chip is not turning off?
Ant ideas
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I have run apple hardware test on loop for several hours with no errors appearing...
The computer also often loads up to a circle with with a slash through the middle sign, though I am not sure if this is related (it started happening when it switched my system over to a SSD).
I am wondering if this is simply a slowly sying PSU and if replacing it might help? If there any way of monitoring this perhaps? I somehow thought that if it was the PSU then it would simply die completely rather than fade like this...
Any ideas much appreciated!

There are multiple threads and reports of issues with Icy Dock - there is one on Amazon that lines up properly.
The drive sled length of 2009-2012 Mac Pro are longer. Maybe OWC needs to be clearer.
You'e right half-way and maybe some corrupt plist or interferring process you have, or even another hardware item or cable - external - even printer drivers or something that refuses or does not like sleep. Controller card?
All around I'd have to vote for Samsung 830 model. Then Intel 520. Crucial is out with x4 now (Or is it "V"?)
SSD firmware continues to be trouble. Even May-June the SandForce firmware had major issue and reason to hold off any using theirs. Reason to see if yours needed to be updated. Someone last week with m4 found they had old firmware and needed to update it.

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