Double Click / Single click problem

Recently i have been noticing when i single click, using either my magic mouse or trackpad i end up getting a double click, even when my double click is set to as slow as possible.
Is there anything that can be done to stop this, as this makes many of the menu's in photoshop un usable as well as the dashboard calculator :'(

My Mother-In-Laws computer (iMac 2GHz- Snow Leopard with current updates) is acting this way also. In her case, she had a Logictec wireless mouse hooked up with the receiver in the keyboard. She has noticed the single click as a double click in Mail and another program (can't remember the other). Suggested that she go back to the original apple mouse and see if it still acted the same way. I'm on the computer now and have been able to recreate the problem with the Apple mouse. Her mouse click setting was all the way to "low". Moved the setting to the middle and didn't see much of a difference. Maybe slightly more instances of double-clicks.
I have two other macs(my Mac Pro and another iMac) I use on a regular basis and have not seen this problem. But they are also behind on Snow Leopard OS updates. I'm guessing this is an internal problem Apple will have to fix.

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