I ran into the "strobe light lightning" back in September, but we couldn't recreate it and it's still an open bug in our bug management system. You don't happen to recall anything in particular that might have occurred around the time that the "strobe lightning" started, do you?

I've never experienced a problem with the Go-pher it! goal. It's possible that your timing wasn't quite right. We'll check it out, to be sure.