Mouse not working in areas of the finder

My mouse is only allowing me to click on items along the outskirts of the monitor.  When the mouse is in the middle of the screen it won't allow me to select anything.  I've tried my trackpad as well as a corded mouse--same effect.  Restarted several times.  Any ideas?

All fixed.  I chatted with the apple guys last night.  We believe the problem was that a program was launching at startup and quickly closing; but it wasn't fully closing and thus was causing problems.  We restarted a few times to observe it popping up and quickly closing.  After the 4th restart it stopped doing it and was "fixed".  Sounds like the next step (if the restarting didn't fix it) was to determine which program was the culprit and stop it from launching on start-up.
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