Game controller cripples my system

When I attach my Tankstick to any USB ports kernel_task uses at least 600% of my CPU's and UserEventAgent takes a full100% of CPU. This never happened in Tiger. When I try to restart I just get the spinning gear and have to hard reset. I've tried booting in safe mode, creating a new user, repairing permissions, Diskwarrior et al but I'm still crippled.
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the replies guys.
Donald- The controller is supposed to appear as a normal keyboard and the trackball as a normal mouse and I doubt the mfg. would have any additional drivers. Pressing buttons in text Edit does show the proper input as if it was a keyboard but the computer is crawling.
Now that I think of it when I first tried to connect it the Apple keyboard utility popped up and asked me to press the keys next to the shift button to identify the keyboard. Maybe this is causing an issue since I obviously couldn't press an identifiable shift key on my game controller.
nerowolfe: Why would a hub be preferred over the built-in ports? I would have thought built-in would be better but I'll try a powered hub just to see.
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