Endnote users, I could use your help

Endnote users, I could really use your help, as I am about to uninstall the darn thing!

I use Endnote X4 on a Windows 7 64 bit machine and Office 2010 32 bit installed. The problem I run into is that Endnote makes Word nearly unusable. I would love to be able to just put in citations when I want them. However, Endnote constantly searches the document for potential citations (anything in parentheses, which is a problem when writing results sections). If I use parentheses in a paper, it will try to search the whole document for citations, and then when I hit ignore leave me somewhere other than where I was. If I click anywhere near a parentheses, it will do the same thing. Also, about every 3 minutes, it will randomly do a search and do the same thing. I have tried turning of cite as you write, but it still does it. I simply can't get it to stop and it makes writing papers more difficult than it is worth.

Any ideas on how to get it to finally stop? If not, are there any programs that I could use instead of Endnote that are easy to transfer an Endnote database into? I really am just about done with Endnote if I can't fix this problem, but I have hundreds of citations in it and I would hate to lose all of that work!

Thanks in advance!