Why does Spaces automatically switch away from my active window?

I'm having the weirdest problem. As of a few days ago, whenever I use an app in full screen mode, this thing happens: after about ten or twenty seconds, the app will switch away from my active window, and show the desktop. What's also weird about it is that there's no switch away from the app - in the menu bar (which was previously hidden, because I was in full screen mode), it'll show that whatever program I was using (ie, Chrome), not Finder. Again, to be clear: the window is switched out of view, and I can see my desktop, but the app I was using is still active.
This problem only happens in full screen mode, and seems to be happening across the board with all the apps I regularly use (iCal, Word, Chrome, Excel, to name a few).
Thanks for the help.

This just started for me today and I have no idea what's causing it. I almost always have a full-screen Chrome space running and it worked fine for me for as long as I've had this machine, but suddenly for no reason it wants to do this autoswitch thing. It is incredibly frustrating even if it is a simple swipe to get the screen to go back across it makes watching a video or reading a page nigh impossible. Is there a solution for this at all or even a workaround?

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