Yup. I've seen the golden spoil craziness.

I also have encountered some kinda umbrella problem lately which seems to mess up entering chat commands..? It seemed to be that when holding the umbrella (I used leaf umbrella, others might have same issue) and trying to enter text (pressing tab OR clicking with the pointer, both had the same issue), the enter chat window repeatedly opened and closed. I checked my keyboard for sticky 'enter' key or 'tab' key - both fine in working order. The fix I found was to click out of the window (on the edge, in the flash client) and then click directly on the chat button. It's frustrating, to say the least.

Edit - doesn't seem to be happening just now... but it wasn't 'every' time before, either.