Why is SwitchBoard on my system?

Sometimes at startup, sometimes at other times, if I run Activity Monitor, I see a process called "SwitchBoard" which very quickly hangs "(Not Responding)" I quit the process because... well, I don't know, really. I guess I figure if something is hung, why keep it around? Anyway, some internet searching suggests this is an internal Apple employee App Store. A YouTube demo showed someone trying to run this on an iPhone: you see a grid of nine dots and someone swiping across them in various directions, which leaves a comet-like trail behind the gesture. Fun, maybe, but it doesn't look like any sort of App store to me.
None of this was very enlightening. Why would this program be running on my iMac (Mac OS X 10.5.8)? It is not an iPhone. I am not an Apple employee. Why does it run and then hang? Why does it run at all?

It seems switchboard appears to be something from adobe. Found this. Since I cannot find the code at the time I am posting this I cannot tell you what to remove to uninstall it. Barring that, look in the following places for stuff related to adobe or switchboard:
your login items
~/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/StartupItems

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why wont this work wrote:
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