New app windows opening Under current ones

so I have this strange issue that just suddenly started happening and it's driving me nuts. this only seems to happen when I open applications, never folders, and it does it to ALL applications, so I know it's a system problem. the issue is this: say I've opened FireFox and now decide to open System Preferences. when I click on the System Preferences icon, it appears that nothing has happened, when in fact System Preferences HAS opened, only the Sys Pref window opens UNDER the FireFox window. unless I'm going nuts I seem to remember that all apps opened their new windows on TOP of all other windows. the same thing happens if I open Mail, Word, Safari, you name it. I cannot find any logical preference that I might have changed to cause this, and am really sick of having to find new windows after I open an application. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hard to say, except something mucked up in memory, where everything running on the machine is stored and operating. You might want to review what you had done since the restart prior to it happening. If it doesn't come back, running the Apple Hardware Test program, extended tests, wouldn't hurt. If you want to thoroughly check out the installed RAM, download and run Rember.

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