Right click mavericks must be hit up to five times before the menu stays

EVer since i installed Mavericks, my secondary click has been wonky. As the title says it sometimes takes up to 5 mouse clicks to get context menus to remain on screen. Im using  generic USB mouse that was perfect...since always. Any ideas?

Okay, so here is where I've gotten to now.
Closet mouse has worked perfectly as a clicking mouse. Sadly, I believe this is a much older mouse and it's optics arn't as good senseing that i'm moving it around my physical desktop. Shame as I like the other mouse much better. Still a wonder why the old one has issues when attached in a USB chain but not to the iMac directly.(though again, the only change made was the Mavericks update so talk all you want about other possibilities - 1 change, sudden issue.... hmmmm)
Also to be clear, it isn't that the click isn't being recognized, the context menu just disappears as soon as it comes up. But I need a working mouse and doing a fresh Mavericks install would be way too much of a pain to hunt down all the old install files I'd need not to mention the time it would take doing the actual installs.
TL;DR version: Problem isn't solved, just sufficiently worked around.
Thank you all for your support, ideas, and solutions!
Long live Apple! .... usually.

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