Help: Photoshop CS4, Opens Adobe Help Website Automatically. Stuck in a loop.

Hello there!
I am having an issue with Adobe Photoshop CS4 (part of Creative Suite Web edition). Any action, including switching to the Photoshop windows automatically swaps out to Firefox and opens the Adobe help website.
My current action was converting a pentool path to a selection when the problem began.
I'm using Windows 7 on a PC. Any help on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you.

Hi there and thank you for responding. :-)
I chose poor wording. I wasn't using a predefined action when the problem started. I used the pen tool to create a path and then right clicked to open the drop down, selected make selection and the error occured when the make selection dialogue box opened.
The Adobe help site then opened in Firefox. Returning to Photoshop, even just by alt-tab swapping back resulted in the help site opening again.
Ultimaty, I didn't find a solution, and used the task manager to force Photoshop to quit/crash.
I've had the error pop up once or twice before, but it is infrequent. I'd just like to try to find a preventitive method or solution, as so far, any time it's started, the only thing I can do is force Photoshop to quit completely.
I'm very sorry that I can't provide screenshots, but I hope that the explaination and additional system informaion might help.
Additional Info:
I don't know if this will be of any help, but my hardware setup is as follows
Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet and Grip Pen Stylus. (The standard pen which is included with the tablet.)
Processor: Dual Intel Core i7 CPR 920 @ 2.67 GHZ
RAM: 12.0 GB
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64 Bit
Graphics Card: Dual Nvidia Gforce 9800
And I am using Adobe Photoshop CS4, the version which ships with Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium Edition.

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