Upgraded from 10.3.9 to Tiger, now Finder keeps restarting itself

Okay I just upgraded only because I needed to upgrade applications that require me to use Tiger. Now that I am done upgrading everything seems to work okay, except every 1-2 minutes the finder keeps flipping out, like it's force-quiting itself, and if I'm working in a program, even as I am typing this, the finder refreshes itself and opens a window that I had already closed.
Why is this happening - please help, it's driving me crazy!

First, check your third-party contextual menu items. If you have any incompatible CMMs they can cause the problem. Remove them or replace them with ones that are universal binaries and compatible with Tiger.
Download a utility such as TinkerTool System and use it to clear user, system, and font caches.

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