Every app (incl system/finder) becomes non responsive on right click.

Hello,
I have a mac pro 2008 and have the recurring problem that occasionally after booting up my system everything that I right-click becomes unresponsive (activity monitor says the app is 'not responding') and I get the little apple beachball animation.
This happens with every app i right-click, for example right-clicking the desktop = Finder unresponsive, same happens with Mail, Firefox, Safari, iTunes, Tweetie for Mac, any app i run.
Also bizarre is the fact that while the one app is unresponsive the rest of the system continues to work as expected, for example Finder is unresponsive but I can still switch spaces, surf the net, listen to iTunes...
A reboot usually fixes this but it is still annoying to get this rather frequent error.
Do you guys have any ideas whatsoever what this could be and how i could fix it?
PS: Hard drives have all been verified, permissions have been repaired and no errors whatsoever in those processes have been found.
The bootdrive also has 61% free space (1TB drive) and has recently been defragmented (the issue happend before the defrag as well so that is not the cause).
A hardware test ('d' key pressed during boot) has also found no errors.
Thanks in advance,
and thanks for reading.
Kindest regards,
Jannis

Hi carolyn,
Thanks for your response.
I actually just installed a new mouse.
It happend while I was using the Logitech MX1000 and it continues to happen with my brand new Logitech RX Revolution that I just installed a couple of days ago..
So either it is a gernally Logitech related issue or independant of the mouse.
Thanks again either way!
Kindest regards,
Jannis
PS: i also switched ports but that made no difference unfortunately.
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