Right click not selecting layer

I have been using a trial version of Photoshop CS5 and have noticed that when I right click on a layer, the list of layers comes up like usual, but the actual layer i am on is not selected. Is this a bug of CS5? This gets rather annoying when you have a lot of layers and would like to get directed on the layer pallet just by clicking on the layer on the stage. Has anyone else found this a problem?

the list of layers comes up like usual, but the actual layer i am on is not selected.
… makes no sense. Or means something different to what you intended. As a guess try these…
• Upgrade your trial to 12.0.1.
• As C… suggests, Command clicking with the Move Tool auto-selects any layer you click on. There is also an option in the move tool called "auto select' that you can change, which toggles this behavior.

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