Hidden Tools always appear

I'm running CS4 on a new unibody Macbook Pro.
Whenever I click (just a regular ole' single left click) on the tools, all of the hidden tools also appear and then I have to select the appropriate tool or click out of the panel. When I first installed and ran the Adobe programs, this didn't happen. I would have to either hold down or right click on each tool to see the tools hidden underneath. I far prefer this because it allows me to switch tools easily and quickly.
I have scoured the interwebs and the preferences panel and haven't found anything to have an effect. This happened to me with CS3 on my old PowerBook G4, so I'm wondering if a preference somehow made it's way over onto my new computer. I didn't restore from TimeMachine or import preferences, so I don't know how that could have happened.
Any way to fix this?
Thanks,
Mollie

Your problem, on several machines, is not related to the Photoshop software itself.
Most likely cause - a bad mouse driver (this is the software that runs a mouse) - very often mouse drivers designed for the Microsoft world are not ported across properly, and there have been various problems caused by this on this forum. Uninstall it if you have one of these pointless drivers, you dont need it, mouse will work anyway.
Also check your 'keyboard and mouse' settings in your system preferences and make sure these have not been set to something unwise
What other software do you have running when you are using Photoshop? Try quitting everyhting and just running Photoshop and the Finder alone, and see if the problem persists

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