App switching in fullscreen mode: Losing Focus

I have my mac running Mountain Lion (Ver 10.8.2) and have noticed that when switching between applications when fullscreen mode is involved that the application I am switching to loses focus.
Scenarios:
Switching from fullscreen app -> fullscreen app
Switching from fullscreen app -> not fullscreen app
Switching from not fullscreen app -> fullscreen app
For all of the above scenarios when the switch is completed, the app I am switching to loses focus, but the application bar still shows the correct application name (so it doesn't just switch to Finder). This happens regardless of if I use a multitouch gesture or CMD+TAB to do the switch. Also, when this happens "CMD + ~" doesn't switch between windows of the application switched to.
I would expect these scenarios to work the same as switching between regular applications where the one you switch to is in focus after the switch. Is this a bug with the fullscreen mode? or is there a setting I missed that can fix it? or is it a "feature"?
I thank you for any help you can provide - this irritating bug makes it impossible for me to use fullscreen mode for my purposes.

That was the problem! I had Live Wallpaper installed and running, so I guess I won't use that until there is an update to fix te problem.
Thanks!

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