ITunes preference & finder preview windows open randomly.

While using iTunes the preference window will randomly open and interrupt operations such as moving files around or deleting playlists. It also happens with preview in finder. Has anyone ever expereinced this problem before? I believe it may be a defective keyboard.
Just for informational purposes I have a 15" MacBook Pro from the Mid 2010 generation. It has the 2.4 i5 processor and 4 gbs of RAM.
Please let me know if anyone has any ideas.
-Robert

No, the "Preview" in column view does not load 3rd
party plug-ins. The .swf file is trying to be
previewed using the QuickTime.framework.
Right. I don't even have a flash player installed on my system, other than quicktime. Which stalls just like Finder if I use it to open this file.
This may be considered a bug, but who actually works with 0k .swf
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Well, probably no one, but the point is this is an easy test case for
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