Clicking on Title window Then Elsewhere Moves window.
Sometimes upon clicking on the title bar of a window, notably Preview or Notes, to bring it into focus for a second, clicking anywhere else to go back to another app moves the Preview or Notes window to the location of the next click. It is extremely annoying behavior as it doesn't always happen. I've tried reformatting multiple times and this has been happening since Snow Leopard, now it continues in Mountain Lion.
.. Found answer to problem within a thread / question posed, similar.
— The initial response to that threard.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12913160#12913160
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