Tool Palette Single Click Opening Fly-out Problem

I'm using Photoshop CS3. A few months ago I started noticing that when I single click on a tool in the tool palette that if there's a flyout available it opens. (No changes to my system preferences, or mouse were made prior to this starting to happen and I'm on a Mac Pro OS X version 10.4.11). The behaviour is as if I'm clicking and holding the cursor to open the fly-out, but I'm only single clicking.
If I do a super fast, sort of "tap" click then the behavior is normal and the fly-outs don't open, but it's hard to get the click just right and an annoyance to have to work that way.
I changed my double click speed from fast all the way down to slow but the problem persists.
This doesn't make PS CS unusable, but it brings production down because to use a tool I have to click twice (first click opens the fly-out, and then I have to click again to select the tool I want from the tools available on the fly-out). I don't have this problem in any other Adobe CS3 application, only Photoshop so my mouse doesn't seem to be the problem.
Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks!

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