Bridge and Photoshop keep coming to the front while batching

Question

I downloaded the newest updates today and now when I run a batch from Bridge to a photoshop action the bridge and photoshop programs keep coming to the front and will no longer allow me to work on background programs or surf the net while the batch is running.
I am using the latest "patches" as of June 5th 2012, on a Mac Pro running 10.6.8
ANyone got a fix for this?

Answer 1

I may have updated another program as I have the Production Suite. But before I did the update my Bridge was working very well.
As always, when Bridge starts unexpected behavior out of nowhere first thing to try is a reset of preferences by restarting the application while holding down option key and from the menu choose reset preferences.
My videos, mov files are previewing nicely even at 3.5 Gb. But this current challenge of the program not allowing me to work on anything else while I am batching is troubling.
I'm a bit surprised you did not have experienced this before. It is an OS thing that when applications running in the background come to front when finishing a task. Every time PS finishes a batch task the focus comes to front. But normally you would be able to keep on doing what you are doing IF you have the window you are looking at activated. If you have a browser open you should click on  this window to activate it. Then the activated window should stay in front. Same in Mail, Finder or any other applications. Even haven multiple windows open of this application, the activated window stays in front while others of the same app are hided by PS. At least it does so at my (same as you) set up.
As Yammer P also suggested, if you have a save command included in the batch action and have set the sort order to date modified or any other setting that changes the sort order in Bridge Content panel when a task (save) is finished it builds a new (updated) thumb and due to sort order replaces itself to top or bottom of the content panel. this also updates the content window and brings it to focus. As said, this is behavior caused by OSX itself.
But again, this should not effect your front activated window and even with the activated window in front it still can be very disturbing...
And I forgot to mention since I did the recent up grades my camera raw files will no longer update in Bridge. Even though they are correct once I open them they are being shown as raw/unrefined images.
This indicates that either your cache has been effected or something happened with your ACR plug in.
Open PS and in the menu Photoshop look under about plugins / camera raw. Inhere should be only one version showing (for CS 5 this should be 6.7 and for CS6 it shows 7.1)
Also select a file that has not been updated and with right mouse click menu choose 'purge cache for selection'
If this rebuilds the thumb correctly choose the menu tools/cache/ purge cache for folder.