Desktop Refreshes Every 30 Seconds

Help!
My desktop is refreshing every 30 seconds. I have set it to a static image after briefly trying to use the "change picture" feature. I have tried rebooting and restarting.
This is frustrating because when the desktop refreshes it bumps me off of whatever application am using. I have to find the application click on it, to bring it up and work for 30 seconds before starting the process over again. It also closes any open finder window and interrupts burning of any CD... I have created wonderful sets of coasters.

I am experiencing the same problem. Ever since I downloaded the updates a week ago my finder has been crashing.
Stuffit AVR is off and has been off. I have rebuilt my permissions with the disk utility in safe mode. Nothing has worked so far. Below is the log from my machine.
2009-04-17 08:49:23.622 loginwindow[144] FSResolveAliasWithMountFlags returned err = -43
Apr 17 08:49:40 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics mDNSResponder: 8707: DNSServiceRegister("2009-04-17 01:49:40 Paula Micallef on Paula Micallef’s Power Mas)", "ExtensisSN.tcp.", "local.", 80) failed: Bad Instance Name (-65540)
Apr 17 08:49:50 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[199]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 08:49:52 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[199]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 08:51:11 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[203]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 08:51:12 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[203]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 08:52:41 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[205]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 08:52:42 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[205]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 08:54:12 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[207]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 08:54:12 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[207]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 08:55:41 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[209]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 08:55:42 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[209]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 08:57:12 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[225]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 08:57:13 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[225]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 08:58:41 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[229]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 08:58:42 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[229]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 09:00:12 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[237]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 09:00:12 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[237]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 09:01:41 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[241]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 09:01:42 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[241]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 09:03:12 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[245]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 09:03:13 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[245]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 09:04:41 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[247]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 09:04:43 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[247]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 09:06:12 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[249]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 09:06:13 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[249]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 09:07:42 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[273]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 09:07:43 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[273]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 09:09:12 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[277]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 09:09:13 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[277]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 09:10:41 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[280]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 09:10:42 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[280]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Can't load ///usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi
Error while getting file ID of /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi. Ignoring...
Apr 17 09:12:11 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[304]: Finder crashed
Apr 17 09:12:13 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[304]: crash report written to: /Users/paulalee/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Apr 17 09:13:42 paula-micallefs-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics crashdump[313]: Finder crashed
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I have another kind of problem with Firefox
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Please stop this horrible screen savers that I receive from firefox every fiew seconds. How do we stop them?
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Please stop this horrible screen savers that I receive from firefox every fiew seconds. How do we stop them?
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