Contextual menu won't come up with control click

I have a user with a one button mouse who can't bring up a contextual menu with control click any longer. When you control click, you get a new finder window or sometimes it brings up Fontbook instead of a contextual window!
it happens no matter who logs into machine. I have tried, thus far, repairing permissions and trashing the finder.plist under this one user. No effect.
I could not find anything when doing a search on the Knowledge Base, so am posting here. Has anyone seen this behavior in 10.4 yet?
Thanks,
Lisa

Try removing the items in these folders:
"/Users/username/Library/Contextual Menu Items"
"/Library/Contextual Menu Items"
Log out/in or restart, if things return to normal you can then start putting items back one at a time until you find the offending item. One common bad actor is a contextual menu item from StuffIt.
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