Finder acting strangely

Just upgraded to Mountain Lion a week or so ago; I don't know if that's key here. Tonight, after re-installing my Wacom driver to correct a problem I was having with the pen tool. Now, whenever I open a new Finder window, it defaults to a strange path and the little spinning icon is active in the lower right of the window.
file:///Applications/iWork%20'09/Keynote.app/Contents/Resources/ru.lproj/Keynote %205%20Help/pgs/kyntc691ddc2.html
If you're curious, it's a page from the Keynote Help manual in Russian. Totally random. Here's a screen grab to show what I mean.Can anyone suggest a repair? I dragged the Finder prefs file to the desktop and restarted, but that didn'ty help.

Problems such as yours are sometimes caused by files that should belong to you but are locked or have a wrong owner. This procedure will check for such files. It makes no changes and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it, then drag or copy it — do not type — into the Terminal window:
find . $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID $ -ls
Press return. The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered — the text, please, not a screenshot.
If any personal information appears in the output, edit before posting, but don’t remove the context.

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happens - I
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pops up)
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highlighting the
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> the
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