All apps/programs switch to Finder on their own... buggy.

Hello guys and gals... It's a simple but awful problem. No matter what I'm doing on my computer, any program/app I'm using will randomly switch to Finder on (it just happened while I was typing) it's own.
At first I thought I activated a certain key command or was hitting a special area on my mouse. But now that I've experienced this issue for a few days, their is no consistency. My only (just did it again!) observation is that I need to be using the computer... if I'm simply listening to iTunes, it won't switch completely on its own, but if I'm surfing in Firefox or editing in Final Cut, it will switch once an hour up to every minute.
This isn't my Macbook BTW, it's a 11.4.11 G4 tower. (43GB HD space left) and I only have a few apps at a time open.
Thanks for reading!
-Monty

Hi Monty,
It's likely some 3rd Party APP that got broken by the recent QT or Security update.
Stuffit AVR has been a big one, if you have that use the Pref Pane to turn it off, but others have been implicated too. Check System Preferences for a Stuffit Pref Pane and disable AVR.
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for action in Safe Mode...
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it is some 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems

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