Weird problems with Leopard on iMac G5

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I've started having some weird problems—I think they *may* have started after running iDefrag, please no discussions about whether to defrag or not, but I'd done it before since upgrading to Leopard and nothing like this ever happened—sometimes while looking at a picture in Preview I'll click outside the frame onto the desktop, but it won't switch to the Finder, no matter how many times I click, also sometimes the computer will go to sleep *while I'm using it* (i.e. moving the mouse); I have set to put the display to sleep after five minutes of inactivity, and the computer never (I donate my CPU cycles).

Also sometimes when I click on the Firefox icon in the Dock it appears as well in another section (so I have two FF icons at once)--I've been having some problems with FF and I think it's a bad profile but would this be related?

All this started within the past week or so, but there wasn't a clear-cut before-and-after with the defragging (I did run OWC Media Scanner for the very first time, but it didn't find any errors, so presumably it didn't change anything), so I'm a little stumped. I ran Disk Utility and DiskWarrior, but the former didn't find anything and the latter only found a custom flag icon error.
 
1) Zap your PRAM by:
holding down the apple-shift-R-P keys while restarting. Keep them held down for 3 chimes then let up.
2) run a program called Preferential Treatment. It is free.
3) run a program called TinkerTool System. When you eirst run it choose evaluation mode, not unless you want to pay for it.
 
I tried zapping the PRAM (never did it before) but it simply boots into Safe Mode.

I tried holding down the four keys both before and after the restart chime, both led to Safe Mode. Even in Safe Mode my iMac has been going to sleep while I'm using it. :-(

I ran Preferential Treatment on both the User and System preferences, everything came up clean.

I haven't checked out Tinker Tool yet.
 
The PRAM reset is not shift-Apple-P and R
Correct is Option-Apple(command)-P and R
Hold those 4 keys until you hear the boot chime 3 times, then release.
 
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