Why is vi (vim) so bad in Arch linux ? "nothing in register.."

Hi.
I use various linux distros - gentoo, suse, ubuntu, fedora and (obviously) arch
I am slowly coming to the decision that Arch is the distro for me and have installed it on my work desktop also.
However there is one major issue I am having with Arch linux.
vim seems pretty much completely unusable in arch linux, not in the way that it is in Debian (i.e the strange arrow keys until you apt-get install vim-enchanced)
Its much worse, I am not able to paste into vim at all ... When pressing middle button to paste the buffer is says - nothing in register.
Also (annoyingly) I am unable to right click and paste into konsole (only when using vim) - instead it gives the message ' (insert) VISUAL '
This occurs from KDE4 and LXDE so it unlikely  to be the desktop settings.
I do not have vi pasting issues with any other distro.
Can anyone help me paste ?
Regards

I'm having this problem too. PuTTY WinXP, logging into Arch Linux. I used to be able to use right-click to paste from the Windows clipboard (the scroll wheel uses the wrong clipboard) but now it just changes me to (insert) VISUAL.
I put
set mouse-=a
in /etc/vimrc, but it didn't work; perhaps because I need to logout and login. But typing that incantation from within the editor works fine.
However, I would beg to differ that "In many terminal emulators the mouse works just fine, thus enable it". Should I upgrade PuTTY? (currently 0.53b)

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