Bounding box and selection tool problems (CS5.5 Illustrator OSX)

When I select objects by dragging arrow tool (i.e. logos, headlines, etc.) I often have a problem that other objects are also selected (images, things that are not visible or not actually there) and I can't unselect them easily to get just my selection of objects and be able to resize them by dragging corners. It's like you have to scale everything including the weird extra invisible items across the page somewhere. Sometimes if it's an image that gets selected in addition I can click on and off it to get just my selected objects. And then sometimes the bounding box does not work at all and I can't resize my selected objects by dragging the corners (scale tool works though). Showing and hiding bounding box from drop down menu does nothing. This seems random but happens all the time. It also happened in CS5 on a different Mac computer. Anybody run into this? I know other designers in the office have experienced this. Is there a weird selection preference I need to set? Should I try resetting preferences? Could it be Ram issues? (Sometimes have Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign open all at once)
I've just been dealing with it up to this point but I am really ready for a fix for this issue. It seems buggy.

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