Can't "right click" on mouse.

Hi all,
I am running OS X 10.4.8 on an Intel Mac Mini with wireless one button mouse.
To "right click" say on a picture, I just hold down the mouse and get an options menu, or to download a link, I just hold down the mouse on the link, and get an options menu.
Well not now!
Now if I hold down the mouse nothing happens ?
I tried the following:
Logged into the admin account the mouse works perfect.
Created a new user account the mouse works perfect.
I uninstalled Divx ( the only thing I loaded recently).
I ran "Disk Aid" fixed a few permissions, mostly iTunes.
I checked the mouse settings, but there are only settings for click speed, and tracking, both of these functions work perfect.
I tried another USB one button mouse in my user account, it does not work either.
Holding down the ctrl key while clicking on the mouse does not work either.
Nor did a re-boot.
So it's some sort of user account problem as the hardware is perfect and it works in admin and the new user account.
Permissions are OK.
I ain't got the faintest idea where to go now
It's an annoying problem, as I can't download stuff that needs a "right click and select save as" , the only way is to log into another account and download it there.
Any help would be great.
Many thanks for your time.
Regards.
R

There's a couple of things to look at in your account:
1. Look in "/Users/yourname/Library/Contextual Menu Items" and see if you have anything in there. If so, try moving all the items to the Desktop and log out/in or restart the Finder. If one of the items is the problem you can add back one at a time until you isolate the culprit.
2. In "/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences" look for plist files that might be related to your mouse. I guess you have an Apple bluetooth mouse? See if there are any plist files related to it, if so remove. Also remove "/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist" and you can try going to "/Users/yourname/Library/Caches/" and removing the System Preferences folder plus "com.apple.preferencepanes.cache" and see if that helps. There's one other System Prefs plist, "/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.systempreferences.0003934 3a1a8.plist" you can remove.
If it isn't a bad Contextual Menu Item, nor a bad mouse of bluetooth preference--either a com.apple plist for the mouse or bluetooth--nor a bad cache or plist for System Preferences, then I can't imagine what the problem is. You could try removing the entire Preferences folder, force Finder to restart and create new default everything, then put back stuff in batches....
Francine
Francine
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