Sticky selection tool with wacom

Hello everyone,
I've read in one other post of the same problem:
I am working on a PC with Illustrator CS6 and an Intuos 4 Wacom pad. Essentially, when I use the selection tool, it will drag the selection box around with me until the pen stops hovering. So I click down, it starts to drag a selection box, I remove the pen and it keeps dragging.
Does anyone have the same problem and is there a solution to this?
this is the post I am talking about:
http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10318
Thank you for any help.

I think I've found the cause of the problem but cannot really solve it.
In the options window of the Wacom drive, if I change the Side Switch Mode from "hover click" to "click & tap" then it solves the stickiness of the selection tool. Course, that changes the way you can use the buttons and thus creates a whole other problem, but at least it point to where the problem is.
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