Mouse cursor flickers while moving around (all programs)

This problem started up about a month ago now. Basically the cursor starts to flicker at random while I move it around the screen. It doesn't fly all over the place as I've read other people's has, but it's pretty annoying and I can't figure out why it's happening.
At first I thought it was just happening in my internet browser (I mainly use Chrome) when I hovered over links, but now it happens in most programs. It makes using Adobe Illustrator (I do some graphic design) very difficult because I can't see the contextual icons telling my what I'm hovering over.
It's also very random when it happens. It doesn't do it over every link and sometimes it will do it only after I click on one. Sometimes it will do it just as I move the cursor around the screen. In Illustrator, for instance, it does it pretty much constantly.
My software is up to date, and I haven't been able to find anyone encountering the same issue as me. Restarting doesn't make it go away, any thoughts?

I had the same problem, cursor seemingly randomly changing shapes as I moved it across the screen. Fortunately I was able to associate the start of the problem with some issues I was having with Flip4Mac that caused me to install a Flip4Mac upgrade. After that the cursor started flipping out and I was getting these errors in the Console:
10/19/13 12:41:36.054 PM com.apple.qtkitserver[569]: objc[569]: Class TSSandboxPrefs is implemented in both /Library/Frameworks/TSLicense.framework/Versions/A/TSLicense and /Library/QuickTime/Flip4Mac WMV Import.component/Contents/MacOS/Flip4Mac WMV Import. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
10/19/13 12:42:17.783 PM com.apple.qtkittrustedmoviesservice[583]: objc[583]: Class TSSandboxPrefs is implemented in both /Library/Frameworks/TSLicense.framework/Versions/A/TSLicense and /Library/QuickTime/Flip4Mac WMV Import.component/Contents/MacOS/Flip4Mac WMV Import. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
I'm not positive, but I believe neither of those are needed anymore since FlipPlayer 3.0 has moved everything into the App Bundle. Anyway, I deleted the folders:
/Library/Frameworks/TSLicense.framework/
/Library/Quicktime/Flip4Mac WMV Advanced.component
/Library/Quicktime/Flip4Mac WMV Export.component
/Library/Quicktime/Flip4Mac WMV Import.component
And then used the Flip4Mac uninstaller to uninstall Flip4Mac, then rebooted, and the problem went away.
I suspect this problem can be caused not only by these specific double definitions, but also by other QuickTime frameworks that are installed in two different places.
So check your console logs for warnings from qtkitserver and/or qtkittrustedmoviesservice logs and see if there is a problem you can resolve.

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