Layers aren't selecting properly

So my photoshop software has been working fine for a good 10 months but has started acting strangely. When i am working on an image and bring in a layer from another image, i try and select the layer but it won't select and selects a different layer instead. Now its just crashed.. do i have a bug?

Usually when things don't work the way they should, the first fix is to try trashing the prefs: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776
If that doesn't work, post back so we could offer more suggestions.
PS: When you say it 'crashed', do you see a crash report? If so, can you post that here?

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