File name changes when I click on another file.

Regardless of which application I'm in (CS2, Quark etc.... When I go to save a file, if I accidentally click on a grayed out file while I'm navigating to the folder where I want the file to be saved, the file I'm trying to save assumes the grayed out files name. I assumed this was a bug with OSX and Apple would fix it but now that we're up to 10.4.5 I'm dumbfounded.

That's not a bug, it's a feature.
Seriously, it's intentional. It could be that they made that change at the request of many Windows switchers, or it just came along with the BSD version of Unix that OS X is built on top of. Either way, it's part of OS X. You need to be careful not to click on a file name in the save dialogue.
For long time users os OS 9 and earlier, this is a headache, as you never had to watch for that before. But once you get used to it, it's actually very handy at times.

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