Stangchic, does your car have cruise control? If so, it sounds like you have a vacuum leak in the cruise system. There is a vacuum switch on the brake pedal (so the cruise turns off when you touch the brakes) but if there is a leak anywhere in the system, you'll get what you have.
Also, to everyone else, its ideal to put any auto tranny in neutral when stopped at a light, most people don't do it because its kinda a PITA.