Clicking, holding and dragging opens blending options?

I recently got a new comp and CS5, I have been a long time CS3 user. I've run into a very weird issue. When I click and drag to move a layer up or down, it frequently opens the Blending Options dialog instead. This has been driving me completely insane, as when I'm trying to quickly select and move multiple layers I keep accidentally opening the Blending Options box, and then I have to close it and reselect all the layers. Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't. I do a lot of complex design work, and frequently have a LOT of layers in my photoshop documents, so this is becoming a real workflow problem for me. I have no clue what could be causing this to happen, but it's finally pissed me off enough that I had to stop dealing with it and figure out what's going on here. Hopefully it's something silly that I've missed.
Thanks in advance for any ideas!
Aaron

Nope, I was using a mouse.
However, I seem to have fixed the problem. I had already tried restarting once and it didn't seem to do anything, but I shutdown my comp completely last night and as of this morning the problem has gone away and everything seems to be working normally.

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