The problem is intermittent and as such difficult to pin down. The FL bulbs are newer and I would have expected that they have limited noise (I do know the older FL tubes and ballasts did create lots of noise, but I haven't experienced that in years as the technology matured).
Interestingly, I have noticed the problem occurs more often with the OFF command which could give your theory great probability (i.e. when the devices are ON, they create the noise, but when they are OFF, they don't have any initial noise).