Why does my stuff always save with the wrong name

I'm in a program, any program, and I'm trying to Save As. While I'm doing this I'm navigating around to choose whatever folder I want ot save in.
By the time I've found the folder the name of my document has changed to something else, usually another document seen in passing.
This happens all the time and slows me down and gets files lost. Surely that's an OSX improvement we can do without.
PowerBook G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7) also Ibook & Powermac G5

If the file name you typed in changed to an existing
file name, then you clicked on a file in the Save
dialogue box. That's not the fault of the OS.
Besides, don't the applications warn you that you're
about to overwrite a file of the same name? You
shouldn't be losing any files if you're paying
attention to the prompts.
Didn't used to happen that way in OS9 and it is so the fault of the OS. Why should a name change just because you accidentally clicked something else. I've entered the name in the save-as dialog box and it shouldn't change.

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