Right click as primary mouse button won't work

Here's my problem...
I go into system preferences / keyboard & mouse and click on "Right" under "Primary mouse button:".
Then I close system preferences, but my right click isn't set as my main click (the contextual menu keeps popping up).
So I re-open system prefs / keyboard & mouse and notice that "Primary mouse button" is set to left again, so I click on "Right" again, close system prefs.
The same thing happens again:(
I tossed preferences for keyboard & mouse, repaired permissions, restarted...no dice. I'm on a powerbook g4 osx 10.4.7 & it's a logitech mouse (logitech's latest driver is bunk..I had it installed previously but uninstalled because the same thing was happening).
The thing that bugs me is that i have an imac at work w/ 10.4.7 and it works fine with the same mouse!
Anyone...please....
Thanks!
Powerbook G4 15'   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

Hey, thanks for getting back:)
I'm using a logiech mouse w/ left & right click buttons. It's possible that if you're not using a 2 button mouse, "Right" does not appear in the Keyboard & Mouse system pref.
I'm trying to make the actual right mouse button on my mouse my main click & make the left mouse button my right click. Basically I want to reverse the mouse buttons.
About the test user account...if it does work correctly in the new account, how can I make it work in my main account?
Thanks again

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