Network Preferences pop-up window that won't go away

When I click on System Preferences and then Network, I get an error message box that reads: "Your network settings have been changed by another application." When I click "OK" it keeps reappearing, and I cannot click on anything in Network Preferences and to exit I must force quit. Short of reinstalling OSX, is there a way to get rid of this message and have the ability to adjust my network preferences? I asked this question to a very harried employee at a genius bar at an Apple store a few months ago, and they said I would have to backup my computer and then do an erase and install...something that I'm not confident to do and wish to make sure that it is necessary before doing.
Thanks, Linda

Go to preferences -> Security, and check the box that says "require a password to unlock each system preferences pane". This should prevent whatever is changing your settings from doing that.

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Look at this link. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9372513
I did BDAqua's suggestion
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Process:         mdmclient [2736]
Path:            /usr/libexec/mdmclient
Identifier:      mdmclient
Version:         1.6 (520)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [273]
User ID:         501
Date/Time:       2013-01-14 11:12:37.422 -0700
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Interval Since Last Report:          1304923 sec
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