Trackpad left click stopped working...bluetooth issue?

I have a new macbook pro 15" i7 for about 2 months, and I have a magic mouse and wireless keyboard too. Everything worked fine until yesterday, when I turned on the pc and the left click on the trackpad wouldn't work! Right click works, the cursor moves...only left click doesn't. I saw on a forum that if I turned off the computer and press optioncmd+rp when it starts it would reset PRAM and could work again, and so it did. But the next day the problem remained when I turned on the computer...just for the experience, I tried to turn off bluetooth, where my mouse and keyboard were connected, and the trackpad now fully works! Is this weird? I didn't have to turn off bluetooth for both mouse and trackpad to work... It must be some software problem, because when it first occurred me, I switched to my windows bootcamp partition and it works there!
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I had this happen to me all of a sudden on my home iMac (2007) and my work 15" MBP (2010). I think it may be related to the multitouch trackpad in some way (probably/possibly the Magic Trackpad which I have paired both with my iMac and MBP). I started seeing multiple messages like this in Console:
20-12-2010 11:29:40 kernel AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying
I had also seen a forum entry (don't remember where) theorizing that a USB device continually polling the bus might be filling up a buffer in some way and making the left click unresponsive.
For me, it looks like disconnecting the Magic Trackpad and reconnecting fixed everything without having to reboot. We'll see if it stays fixed. If you aren't using a USB keyboard/trackpad, then I'm not sure what to suggest since I don't think you can disconnect the built-in trackpad via software.
Anyway, in the mean time, keep System Preferences > Universal Access > Mouse & Trackpad > Mouse Keys accessible with the 'press the Option key 5 times' to activate option. This allows you to use the 7, 8, 9, u, o, j, k & l keys to move the cursor, and the i key to left-click. At least that way you can shut things down safely if things go haywire.
If anyone else is having these problems, please post so we can get to the bottom of it.
Best of luck!

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So far I have noticed several times on my Quad Core 27 inch imac that the mouse clicks stop working. This is with two different mice, plugged in together, so I know it's not mouse or driver related. It happens to both of them whenever it does happen.
The only correlation I can make is that it usually happens when I am on a website. I might even have noticed a correlation with "flash based" modules and components on websites, but this could be speculation at this point.
Apple, I love you, but having to hard restart my $2000 computer because the mouse is inoperable is unacceptable. Figure this out. There is no excuse for this. PC's don't do this. I've never had a computer do this in my entire life and words cannot describe how frustrating it is, especially when you are in the middle of trying to get some work done...
-Matt

Try hitting the escape key on the keyboard (ESC). I've noticed that some property sheets, dialogs, and context menus can get 'lost' if you change focus to another program intentionally or accidentally, or if an application 'steals focus' (fairly rare in OS X). You may have to Command + Tab between applications to find where things are 'hung up'. Flash seems especially bad about hanging after a right click tries to call up a context menu.

I have Adobe CS4..... now when I want to print my picture, I get the message "Adobe CS4 has stopped working, sending issue to windows and then disappears.... nothing can print anymore...Help??

I have Adobe CS4..... now when I want to print my picture, I get the message "Adobe CS4 has stopped working, sending issue to windows and then disappears.... nothing can print anymore...Help??

Try updating the printer driver.

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