Pro mouse - control clicking

Recently upgraded to Leopard and 10.5.2 and I just noticed that I can control-click to copy text as usual but control-click to paste is a bit different. I can control-click-paste into forms & text areas such as in Safari, and into the body of a new mail note in Apple Mail, but cannot control-click-paste into areas such as the "To", "cc", "Bcc" in Mail; into text areas of dashboard widgets, and some other locations.
There doesn't seem to be a place to tweak this in the System Preferences, any ideas?
Thanks!
--JH

Hi, ojnab -
A couple of other things to consider or try -
• According to Apple KBase Article #58649 - Apple Pro Keyboard: Devices Connected, the keyboard won't handle passing much power through. Try connecting the mouse to a USB port other than one on the keyboard.
• The Apple Pro mouses had a defect - the wires inside the cable can fray at the point the cable leaves the mouse body, causing random open and/or short circuits in the USB bus. One test for that is to use a different, known-good mouse - after restarting with that replacement in use, if the problem disappears the fault is probably with the original mouse.

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