"Characters" empty dialogue box appears intermittently

Last week I upgraded to Leopard 10.5.1 but all of a sudden (yesterday), a rectangular shaped box with the words "Characters" in the title bar appears anytime (regardless of the application I'm working in) I simply click anywhere on the screen. Worth mentioning is that this rectangular "dialogue" (I'm not sure if that's what its called) box appears for 2 seconds and then disappears until the next time I click. Finally, I think this whole mess may have started when I selected "Characters" from one of the menus in "Stickies." By the way, the only thing appearing inside this box when it pops up is one of those spinning things that indicates when something is being processed (looks like hands on a clock). Please help! I can't stand having this thing pop up in my face every 5 seconds!

Eyeteach,
I am having the same problem. Similar to you, the problem started when I selected "Special Characters" under Edit in itunes. A "Characters" box pops up every 5-10 seconds in the same position on the screen and then spontaneously disappears. I agree this very annoying. I've tried restarting the computer with no success. I have not seen any correlation with the Leopard 10.5.1 upgrade and this problem. I upgrade Leopard quite some time ago and problem started today.

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