Erratic behavior when viewing files

Hello,
I've had a multitude of problems lately, but in short I have a new hard drive and have topped out my memory at 3Gb. However, I still do not understand why when viewing images and documents from Macintosh HD -> Home Folder -> Search this is still happening: the file list will not stay still! The list keeps bouncing around like a ping pong ball, no matter what viewing mode I am in. It is really annoying because I am fighting to scroll down and when I find a file to drill down on, the list jumps and I lose my place. The "jumping" seems to be happening at regular intervals, perhaps every 5-7 seconds.
I have also noticed that all stock Adobe (Photoshop Elements) images are highlighted in green. I never noticed this before, and I don't know if this has anything to do with my problem or not. But I do know that when I bring up these "jumping" file lists, the first file the list seems to be fixed on is the first Adobe stock image on the list, even though it is never the first file in the list (no matter how the list is sorted).
Any comments or suggestions are welcome. I Googled this issue using many different combinations of keywords with no useful search results. I can't possibly be the only person on the planet who has experienced this problem.
Thanks.

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