Turn multi-button mouse into single button mouse

I thought I would never want to go back to the single button mouse that Apple preferred until recently.
But now my 3 year old son is learning to use the computer and has a lot of problems with contextual menus popping up all over the screen. Is there any way to turn the right mouse button into a second left mouse button?
Mac Mini, Powerbook G4, B&W G3   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Hi, Wim T. If your son has his own user account on the Mac, you may be able to use the mouse's configuration software to set both buttons to do the same thing — in his account only. That would leave your own mouse-configuration preferences undisturbed. And I second Kappy's recommendation of USB Overdrive as excellent mouse-configuration software.
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