Constantly losing focus away from code view in CS6 OSX

DW constantly loses focus away from the editing pane in code view, and instead seem to focus on another part of the interface.  Two big problems with this:
When I expect to still be in code view, and the first thing I do is hit Delete, DW wants to DELETE MY FILE - and worse, the confirmation pop-up is automatically focused on YES, so if I hit enter, the file is gone before I may even notice what happened...
I have to keep going back to my mouse and finding the exact line and spot in my code where I had my cursor (and can still see the cursor there, just not focused), and click to reclaim focus.
I've noticed this happens on several occasions:
When I do Command+S to save, and then Command+U to put, the put command focuses on the "Files" component of DW and does not return to code view like it should,
if I switch between apps with Command+TAB and then return to DW, again my focus is lost away from the code where my cursor still sits, but does not respond (again, it seems to think I am trying to manipulate the file, like delete it upon Delete key),
sometimes, complately randomly when I highlight something, same focus loss...
This is extremely annoying (on top of the already laggy and poorly designed custom chrome).
OSX 10.8.2 and latest DW CS6.
Anyone know how to fix this, or is this just another bug Adobe is ignoring?

So looks like Adobe released a DW update, yet this is still not fixed.
Unbelieveable how this is not a priority, along with optimizing the terrible UI experience (it has gone backwards in speed and funcionality from previous versions).
This is also not a problem on Windows, just OSX - which used to be Adobe's target market... time to find alternatives to CS.

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