Strange / weird SPACES behavior

Guys,
I had something weird occurring (for a limited occurrence time) with spaces: I have 6 spaces activated on my MBP: yesterday, when I scrolled vertically the mouse pointer (bluetooth Magic Mouse) toward the bottom of the screen (hence making the dock automatically appear according to my preferences) spaces automatically activated and caused the passage to the space below the one currently active (i.e. if I was on space 1 it was going to space 4 or if I was on space 2 it went to space 5). I tried to see if something weird was in the space and or exposé preferences (in the general preferences) and I just unticked / ticked the automatic reversion to the space where an application is open, when clicking on this application (I hope to have been clear).
After some play with these preferences, the problem did not reoccur again.
Please:
- have you ever heard about something similar?
- Which .plist might I delete in order to be sure to have killed a latent corrupt configuration (I have already reset finder even after the problem was not reoccurring)
- do you confirm that it is stupid to think about a virus / malware?.... (I have full firewall activated and this happened only after updating via adobe site all the programs of my CS5 production premium programs..).
Thank you for your kind help / feedback
Cheers
Emanuele
P.S.: no application / program was open but finder alone
Message was edited by: califfo1975 (P.S. added)

Indeed I waited a bit before updating because I was scared of drawbacks...Here attached the link to the specific post I launched. thank you for your interest and help.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2577256&tstart=60
Cheers
Emanuele

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