When editing clips in timeline, individual clips rearrange themselves without my direction.

It happens when I move my cursor over the clips, but there is no other indicator beforehand that it will happen. It's quite random. They will move themselves however they see fit, I guess.
I'm not using the touchpad on my Mac, so it isn't that.
Premiere Elements 13
MacBook Pro
OS X 10.10.1
Help?

aspangler85
Did you purchase the program from Adobe as an online download? Then you should be able to get a money back return if you are within 30 days of the purchase.
But, have you considered an uninstall, free ccleaner run through, and reinstall with antivirus and firewall(s) disabled?
CCleaner - Download
You could try a less drastic action and delete the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file. It is my understanding that file is located
Users/Owner/Libraries/Application Support/Adobe/Premiere Elements/13.0.
Please let us know the outcome.
Thank you.
ATR

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