Mouse problems with PS CS3.

So I use a Wacom tablet with CS3, and when I open Photoshop, my right and left-click functions are reversed (left-click opens a menu, right-click selects things). This only happens with Adobe programs. How do I solve the problem?
EDIT: I'm running on Windows Vista, if it's any help.

This is a wild guess...
But it could be that the mouse software and the wacom software interfere, so that the mouse drivers are overriding the wacom settings.
There is i.E. "Setpoint" from Logitech which allows you to create different mouse configurations (like switching keys, assigning shortcuts, etc.) for different programs.
I also had a similar issue with my touchpad. It was always very slow and everytime I set it's speed to a higher rate, it always got set to low again by the mouse driver. Then there was an option for that touchpad to let vista's mouse settings handle the pointer speed. I don't recall where I could enable this setting, but this was a case where touchpad and mouse interfered and maybe this is similar to what is happening to you right now.
You can try to disable all third-party mouse-drivers and programs that came with your mouse (not the tablet), Vista will just use the standard driver and not interfere with the wacom tablet. If your tablet does work in Photoshop now as expected, the next step would be to take a closer look at the mouse software and if there are some settings which can solve your problem.
If not, just do what the previous poster recommended: Search for new wacom drivers. Also make sure you don't have older wacom software of previous tablets installed (I switched from an old graphire to bamboo - mainly because I lost the pen). I had a lot of problems while the old drivers were colliding with the new ones. Removing the old ones solved them all.

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