Mouse acts twice when I click once

I bought a G4 Quicksilver on Ebay when I retired my old identical G4, which I had used primarily on OS9.2. The "new" one works fine overall on OSX 10.4.11, but the mouse is crazy. I have to highlight a line 4-5 times because it keeps disappearing when I release the mouse, but eventually it stays. Also when I click twice to open a folder, it will double the action and also open something in the folder. If I click on the triangle to display the files in a folder, it will open it and immediately shut it again. If I use the item tool in Quark to capture a pic box or text box, it will vanish a couple of times first. It does work fine after two or three attempts at all these things but it's annoying to have to keep repeating my actions over and over. Is this Ebay mouse haunted or can these responses and lack of responses be cured??? Thanks from Gina.

I brought the Double Click speed there all the way to the left a few days ago and it made no difference, it still does it. Now if I click on an email just ONE time slowly to highlight it for deletion, it opens the email up. Same with FontBook. One slow click opens the font on the right "page" but it also launches a font file. I think this $%*# thing is crazy and I'm gonna have to call Ghostbusters!

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