Cannot choose layers w/o going to layer style menu

I'm on CS3, on a network. Over the weekend the network admin put through updates to several programs, none of those were Adobe. However, in photoshop, now I can't select a layer by clicking on it. I have to double-click, which opens the layer styles menu, click OK or cancel to close the menu, then the layer will be selected. This isn't happening anywhere else. Illustrator gives me error messages when trying to apply a layer effect, but I don't know when that started, it may not have anything to do with the current network updates. Any ideas, especially for the PS problem? That's quite annoying to deal with.
Thanks!!!

Hi
thanks for the response. I've always done that, that's what was so puzzling.
We finally figured it out - what happened was the couple of files that were
open when IT started the update were the only ones with the problem. They
were corrupted when a force quit was initiated ... or at least that's what
we think.

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SplendidAngst wrote:
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