Lion Finder active window display problem

I'm running 10.7.3 on my MB Pro. I have all the latest-and-greatest updates. However, this quirk only started to appear with Lion and has appeared in all versions to date. I'm wondering if I'm the only one who has this problem.
Here it is: Whichever Finder window that is active used to pop to the front (or "on top of") of all other windows, but often I find that this is no longer the case.
Example #1: If I have two windows open and I'm dragging a file from one to another, the dialog box that asks if I want to copy the file often stays buried beneath one/both other windows.
Example #2: If I go to drag a file from one window to another window hidden/buried under the first one, it used to be that if I held the file to be dragged over the buried window that it would become "active" and thus move to the front, but now this is often not the case.
Example #3: If I go to cycle through open windows using Cmd ` in order to find a buried window, often the buried window will not move to the top.
In all these instances, even using Expose to show open windows will not bring the desired window to the front. I was hoping that this bug would be noticed in 10.7.0 and be corrected by now, so either it's a bug or maybe I've got something set up wrong. Somebody enlighten me!

I've had the exact same problem with Lion. Telephone support told me to reinstall OS X Lion, which didn't help. The genius at the Genius bar told me it was my 3rd party (Kingston) RAM. He demonstated the display was fine without the extra RAM, but he was using a USB mouse with a scrollwheel. At home, my bluetooh magic mouse continued to cause the same problem, and so did my trackpad. So I determined it had to do with the faster (and different type of) scrolling that these newer devices perform. I then saw that if I use the slider on the right side of the finder window instead of gesturing with the mouse or trackpad it works fine.
So I played with my settings a bit to see if I could overcome this problem, and found a solution. I went to "Preferences-General-Show scroll bars" and changed from "Automatically based on input device" to "Always". This nearly fixes the problem! At least so far. I get an occasional glitch if I scroll up and down a lot, but way less frequently than when its set to the default "Automatically based on input device". This must be due to the new disappearing scrollbar "feature" in Lion. Nicely done, Apple!

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