Mysterious square

I'm building a shopping cart for a gallery site. I hadn't
even worked on it for a week, but when I checked it yesterday,
there was a strange problem. When you click directly on the
datagrid a mysterious green square appears. The square doesn't
inherit the transform of the data grid, but it does inherit the
alpha value. The really strange thing is that it only happens when
I post the files online. There is no problem when testing locally.
I've talked to tech support and they were stumped.... Can anyone
help? (please don't try to purchase anything, the site is far from
finished)
the data grid comes up when you press add to cart or show
cart
http://danielbourdet.com/susanbourdet/SBgallery.html

Thanks for helping Rothock. I messed around with focus
manager and eventually just disabled tabbing, but the square
remains. While I haven't found a way to completely get rid of the
square, I have found a way around the problem.
I guess the data grid didn't like being scaled for some
reason. The square was the outline of the data grid at 100 scale, I
had it at 130. I reset the scale to 100 and the square still
appears, but is now on the outline and is not so distracting.
http://danielbourdet.com/susanbourdet/SBgallery.html

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