Bridge CS5 random scrolling and jumping

Hi, I'm using Bridge CS5 on OSX 10.8.4 with a wired apple keyboard and Wacom Intuos 4.
When viewing a folder full of images in the content tab, it will seemingly randomly scroll up or down through the images without any kind of input on my part. I've tried updating everything (bridge, OSX, wacom drivers). I turned off all of the buttons on the tablet since I don't use them anyway.
It's extremely frustrating when I'm trying to skim images for retouching and bridge will decide to randomly skip to another part of the folder contents.
This happens when viewing content in remote folders, not sure if it happens on local folders.
Does anyone else have this problem?

I'm on Bridge CC but also 10.8.4 and a wired keyboard and Intuos 4 but I also do use the wireless magic mouse from Apple that can be very restless sometimes and makes things move and scroll or enlarge without my intention to do so. For now I'm blaming my 'thick fingers' for it…
This problem happens in any remote folder I browse on multiple servers at different physical locations so purging folder cache isn't going to do anything. I have tried resetting prefs to no avail.
Still not clear if your problem is persistent or only at the start of using the folders.
And while no experience nor knowledge about network environment you should be able to purge cache without problem because in the default installation your cache file is installed in the user library of your user account.
But if you have set a custom location this might be a bit more tricky. You can check the location of your central cache file in Bridge Preferences cache tab.
I should mention that I have colleagues and associates also running Bridge CS5 on different machines with different loadouts who are also experiencing this problem which leads me to wonder why I haven't been able to find similar posts about it.
This brings up another question. Could it be you or one of your colleagues or all have set the option to distribute cache to folders when possible?
If so a build cache of your colleague in the folder might conflict with your own cache trying to read different info. Just a thought. Check one folder and use menu view, show hidden files.
See if there are 2 files with a document icon called .BridgeCache and .BridgeCacheT
If so delete both files and try again.
And since Bridge is not designed nor official supported for use over a network this might be the reason not many people manage to use it over a network and therefor don't run in this problem??

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