Try using the bug-hunter package to isolate the part of your init file
that may be causing the problem.
Does bug-hunter use d.el and s.el and the other 24 alphabet libraries? :-)
I would use bug-hunter, but I'm not convinced the problem is in my own
init.el file. I've eliminated everything. It's my stock Emacs package that
doesn't work. I removed init.el and I type (require 'helm-config)
and (helm-mode 1) and I get the buggy behavior.
Thanks,
--Nate