Locked mouse interaction with desktop

Hello all,
The following issue has just started reoccuring for me. The fault state is what occurs if you left click and drag on the desktop - you get the shaded rectangle.
I can be happily using my Mac and all of a sudden the mouse will be locked in this 'rectangle' state. I cannot unlock it from this state. It has occured with two different USB mice and with my current BT Mighty mouse. The only way out of this is a restart.
This error also can occur when I am away from the machine. I come back and find the mouse stuck in the rectangle drawing mode.
I am going out of my mind with how to fix this? Has anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
Anthony
G4PB 12" 1.5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

So, the best intermediate solution I've found is to add a swath of MouseEvent listeners (CLICK, DOUBLE_CLICK, MOUSE_OVER, MOUSE_DOWN, MOUSE_UP) to the Sprite objects associated with my ContainerControllers. These listeners just call event.preventDefault() and event.stopImmediatePropagation().
The end effect is what I desired -- no more user-initiated mouse-based selection of the text.
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