Safari won't let me click in text box, page shifts slightly instead

I am somewhat new to Apple computers having used Windows PCs for the last 25 years.  However, since about Dec we have been an all-Apple household (1 MacBook Pro, 2 iPads, 1 iPhone, 1 iMac, 3 iPods).  As a result, I am still getting up to speed on certain behaviors in Mac apps as well as the OSX Snow Leopard and Lion operating systems.
One thing I have not been able to figure out:  sometimes in Safari when I try to click in a text box (such as entering a search term in Google), the page will "wiggle" to the right (sort of like it is trying to go back but can't) and the cursor will not change to an I-beam.  Instead, it will persist as an arrow.  When I try to click, the page keeps trying to shift to the right.  However, if I wait a few seconds, the page will nudge itself back into position and I can then click in the text box as normal.  This seems to be a "feature" of Safari, but I can't figure out what it is trying to tell me.  I also have not checked to see if the same behavior occurs with Firefox or Google Chrome, so I don't know if this is a browser-specific behavior, or something common to all browsers and part of the Apple OSX operating system.
I have a magic mouse, if that makes any difference, and I do realize that swiping left or right will act as a page fwd/bkwd command.  However, the issue above occurs when left-clicking...not when swiping.
Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hopefully it's a cache issue not your Magic Mouse.
Quit Safari.
Go to ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari
Move the Cache.db file from the com.apple.Safari folder to the Trash.
Relaunch Safari.
This seems to be a "feature" of Safari
No.. it's not.

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