Help text getting in the way of clicks

I often have trouble clicking something because the help text comes up in the hated yellow box moment I hover my mouse over it. Making it impossible for me to click the button.

For example, in the attached screenshot, I was trying to drag the favicon into my bookmarks toolbar in order to bookmark twitter. The moment my mouse came over the directory I wanted to put it in, the stupid yellow help text came up, and I could not bookmark the page that way. Finally I dragged the favicon to empty space on the bookmarks toolbar, and then move it from there.

I have this trouble while using OpenOffice as well.

I think the help text should not come up right below the mouse. It should be slightly away.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 29 10:40:32 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: meta-gnome2