Losing focus in file navigation dialogs

I've been searching on here and Leopard seems to have a number of focus problems. I think I may have found another.
Try this: under 10.5.2, launch iTunes and open any of its file navigation dialogs. Select any folder or file but don't click "Open." Now Command-Tab to the Finder or any other app. When you Command-Tab back to iTunes focus has been lost on the file dialog. This behaviour also occurs if you activate the screensaver.
It also happens with these third-party applications: Graphic Converter 6.0.3, Final Draft 7.1.3, Final Draft Tagger 1.2.2, TextWrangler 2.3, Screenwriter 6.0.2.109 (r3).
This does not happen with any of the following Apple applications: AppleScript, Automator, Font Book, GarageBand, iCal, iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb, Keynote 4.0.2, Numbers 1.0.2, Pages 3.0.2, Mail, Preview, QuickTime Player, Safari, Stickies, TextEdit.
It also does not happen with these third-party applications: Bean 0.9.11, Little Snitch Configuration 2.0.2, NotePad 2.6b1, Scrivener 1.11.
Graphic Converter's developer maintains that these dialogs are handled by the Mac OS and he can do nothing to change this behaviour. If this is true, why the disparity in my test results?
Kind regards.

This is on a brand new iMac 24" 2.4 GHz Core Duo with the stock Radeon HD2600 graphics card. I reinstalled the system and bundled software to leave out unnecessary printer drivers and language translations, then applied the 10.5.2 Combo updater, followed by the Graphics Update. Problems with HelpViewer were resolved by trashing its cache and .plist files. I then installed my third-party apps.
Graphic Converter was the first app to manifest the focus problem. I reported this to Lemkesoft Tech Support and was informed that this was a Mac OS issue so I decided to test all apps on this machine. As stated, iTunes is the only Apple application to exhibit this behaviour (although I have not yet tested the utilities).
Kind regards.

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