Desktop wants to come to the front of current application.

Something strange has been happening with my Mac Dual 1GHz PowerPc G4 running OS X 10.4.11 recently. While I am working in any application, every few minutes, my desktop will come to the front of my application. It's almost as if I've clicked on the desktop- but I really haven't. The application I'm working on seems to deselect,as I'm typing,- again as if I clicked on the desktop and I have to click within the document again to continue typing. Any clues as to what might be going on and what I can do to remedy the situation?
Richard Skover

It's likely some 3rd Party APP that got broken by the recent QT or Security update.
Stuffit AVR has been a big one, if you have that use the Pref Pane to turn it off, but others have been implicated too. Check System Preferences for a Stuffit Pref Pane and disable AVR.
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for action in Safe Mode...
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it is some 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
Did you see this link...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1873700&tstart=0

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