Weird Finder behaviour - I think.

I seem to be having a recurring problem lately that I haven't been able to duplicate. I'll be working in an application (and sorry... I can't be specific - yet) and when I click on the Dock to switch to a different (open) application, a finder window opens in the Applications folder with that application hi-lighted. If I go to the application, it functions like I've got the CMD key held down - but I don't. I have to restart to restore thing back to normal. This has happened 3 or 4 times over the last couple weeks. I'll have to pay more attention to what I'm doing when it starts acting up - but does anyone have any idea what may be happening?

Could be a problem with your Wacom mouse, perhaps the preference file, perhaps the mouse itself. You might go ahead and open the Wacom pref pane and verify the settings.
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