Online Help Opens Automatically

I've got an issue I've never seen any discussion about - and it drives me crazy. As I'm working away in Photoshop, all of a sudden Adobe Photoshop Online help launches in my web browser. It seems to happen when I'm doing the same task repeatedly -- like repeatedly opening and closing a layer's Layer Style dialog box (but the issue is not limited to working with layer styles).
It's like Photoshop is assuming I'm having a problem because I keep doing the same thing a number of times, so it automatically launches help... when I don't need any help.
I'm working in Photoshop CS4 on a Windows 7 64-bit PC... although I had the same issue on previous versions of Photoshop and Windows.
Anybody ever experience this or know how to stop it from happening?
Thanks much!
Brian

It's been seen before, and likely indicates there is some memory corruption in the running Photoshop image. It's a symptom that happens after the fact.
Corruption can occur because of faults in 3rd party plug-ins or the video driver.
Make sure your video driver is up to date from the web site of the maker of your video card.
Try disabling the advanced drawing feature in Photoshop's Edit - Preferences - Performance OpenGL configuration.
Temporarily remove 3rd party plug-ins. If there are plug-ins you need, see if there are updates that fix bugs.
Also make sure you have the latest Photoshop update (11.0.2 as I recall for CS4).
Good luck!
-Noel

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