Single-click registers as double-click, trackpad AND mouse

I did a search here and elsewhere on this and it seems to be a fairly common issue among G4 PowerBook users. These are the threads I found here on the subject just doing a quick search...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3875680&#3875680
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1206577&#1206577
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6951566&#6951566
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4574012&#4574012
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3359374&#3359374
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3423942&#3423942
I have the same problem and it's really starting to annoy me since I started using this computer more frequently recently. I've owned it since new. It has done this off and on since I bought it. I only used it for travel so I just put up with it but now I'm using it for all E-mail to free up my primary desktop for other needs and this is starting to drive me crazy. The machine originally had Panther on it and when I migrated to Tiger I thought that might fix it. No such luck.
The problem is that quite often when I single-click on something, whether in the Finder or an Application, it registers as a double-click. It doesn't matter if I use the trackpad or a mouse, same problem.
I've tried different "Keyboard and Mouse" settings in System Prefs and nothing makes any difference. I've tried the PMU reset too. No change. I've tried it with the mouse disconnected and I've tried it with two different mice. No improvement. I've even tried it with green eggs and ham but the problem persists!
I've never had this issue with ANY other Mac I currently own (3 others) or have owned in the past (many since 1985). My only speculation is that MAYBE the humidity/static in my environment has something to do with it. I've never noticed an exact correlation but it SEEMS that perhaps I may be having this problem more often when the climate is dry. Possible?
Has anyone found a definitive cause/solution for this issue? Thanks!
Mike

Glad that worked for you Sup3rL4m3r but I suspect we have different issues. I have no problems with anything except single-clicks and click-drags registering as double clicks with either the trackpad or mouse. I have no issues with my "wallpaper" or with erratic cursor issues, or with anything else. When I upgraded to Tiger as indicated in the original post, I did an archive and install but it did nothing to mitigate the problem.
This seems to possibly be a somewhat common problem based on previous posts I've read on it but I suspect that the lack of any solutions suggests it is a design flaw of some sort that has no solution. Perhaps it is not prolific enough to get any attention. Darned shame since this machine has otherwise been flawless. Kind of like buying a new car that has a hesitation on acceleration that you can't get rid of. Most annoying.

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Single Click registers as Double Click

Hi guys, my current issue is a bit hard to explain but here goes:...
In CS 5.5 I now have an issue where a single mouse click is often registered as a double-click. This means if, for example, if I single-click on a clip that is placed on the timeline to select it and want to drag or trim, Premiere registers it as a double click and opens up the clip in a Source Monitor. This gets old really fast. There are a lot of other instances where Premiere does this and I need it to stop.
I'm suspecting a possible issue with the graphic card (GTX580), however it worked flawlessly, no mods or driver changes have been done.
I played around with the Windows mouse settings hoping it would fix it, but to no avail. I tried different mice, from a cabled cheap Dell mouse to a wireless Microsoft mouse. No changes. Restarts or creating new Projects didn't help. No new peripherals have been added, and no upgrades or registry changes have been made.
Any ideas?
Thank you
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Don't get me wrong. Your system looks WIcked.... however is the set up for Premiere overly complex? First, I'm not a system integrator, I'm just a simple caveman really. But I can compare my two systems from work, which are.
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I would like to treat single-clicks differently than double-clicks but it appears that when I double-click an item on a Front Panel control it runs the single-click event once before running the double-click event. I would like the single-click event not to trigger if the user double-clicks.
I am discarding the "Mouse Down?" filter event then using the "Mouse Up" notify event to try to catch the difference between a single-click and double-click.
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If you edit the event cases, is the "Lock front panel until the case for this event completes" box checked?
I think this is a key configuration to understand.
The current configuration means that the 'mouse up' event for the first click is triggered. Then immideatly the front panel is locked. The second click needs to wait until the event has finished. So I think unchecking that box might improve the code.
Yes you should remove the 5 ms. wait, it has little purpose. It might even cause this: Click 1(& lock), wait 5 ms, event 1 (&unlock), click2 (no double click anymore).
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On 27" iMac using OS 10.7.4, trackpad and mouse will not scroll or swipe, can point with both, click only with mouse, scroll only with keys on keyboard. What have I done now??? They are all paired with good batteries. Have checked in settings and they are enabled to scroll.

In Lion the scrolling is natural i.e. reversed to the way that computers typically scroll. Think of the scroll as grabbing the page an moving it either up or down vs moving the scroll bar down up or down. Also, the scroll bars are "hidden" by default and only show up when you are scrolling.
Are you using and Apple mouse? If you go to the system preferences and then to the "mouse" section there are options to change the natural scrolling. And if you go to System Preferences and then to "general" you can set it to show or hide the scroll bars.
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You can try resetting your MacBook's PRAM:
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I keep forgetting that the page selected in the panel may or may not be the page I'm currently editing & this is very frustrating.

Page that you're currently on is highlighted in reverse (black background white text)
If you're select a page in the pages panel it highlights blue to indicate it's selected. This allows you to move the page if you need to, or select over dozen other options for that page, numbering, sections, override, move, duplicate, apply master page to, delete, rotate view, colour label, page transiitions, hide master items and spread flattening!
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Captivate 3.
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click in the box set for a double click, nothing happens. It
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Hi jimclennon and welcome to our community
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A coworkers is having problems with his mouse (so I thought I'd post the problem, see if anyone knows what might be happening). He'll single click with his mouse, but sometimes (not always), it will act as though he's double clicked. Anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem might be?

He's got a dual 1.2 (I think) GHz G4 tower. He's using some third party mouse (with two buttons and a scroll wheel). He's running Panther (he might upgrade to Tiger today).
He (Brian, I'm gonna stop sayin' "he") ...Brian, switched with a "normal" Apple mouse for a few minutes and said it wasn't happening. But he can't get used to the big single click (which I prefer myself). Well, looks like we've found the culprit. I'll suggest changing USB ports, see if that does anything different.

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Used it this morning for several house, took it to work, turned it on and the mouse is working ie the cursor moved over the screen but i am totally unable to click anything! Forced it to restart (holding down power key as that was all that worked), hasn't cured the problem.
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Finally got it fixed. Make sure you guys call Apple Support. The first tier tech support is not able to help you because they have not been trained for that You will have to speak to a senior advisor. There will be a lot of deleting of caches involved while in safe mode. After did all that my trackpad and keyboard is working again. Hope you'll get yours working too!

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This seems quite a poser.
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When I click my mouse it mostly double clicks. I has the same problem on my logitec and my apple magic mouse so it must be the software.

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Can I connect and use both a magic trackpad and usb mouse at the same time?

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I have to "single-click" twice (not double click) to open an item in the Dock.

Can someone confirm if this is Expected Behavior?? (OS = Mavericks)
If you have Assigned an application in your Dock to a Desktop & Display in the application's Dock >> Options (ex: Assigned To: Desktop on Display 2):
Click once on the application icon in the Dock, the application's Menu will populate on the top of your screen, but not the application itself (yet), click the application icon a second time, the application will now show too.
Docked Applications that do not have an Assigned To: Desktop & Display in the Dock options, you only need to single click.
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For odd Dock behaviors otherwise try this:
You may have a corrupted Dock preferences file.
Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
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~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist (plist = preference list file)
Click Go then move the com.apple.dock.plist file to the Trash, or move it to your Desktop.
Restart your Mac and see if the behavior is resolved. You will have re-configure your Dock settings.

From where are you launching Mail? The only place, unless I've missed or forgotten something, you can launch an application with a single click is from the Dock. Is this what you're doing, or are you attempting to launch Mail from the Applications folder?
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Kirstiee, login to another User account and test it in there.
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