Two finger click selects text but will not release it.

I have just upgraded from 10.4.10 to 10.4.11 and from Safari 3.0.3 to 3.1.2. A new problem has developed. If I two-finger click on a link in Safari, in order to select 'Open Link in New Tab' or if I two-finger click in a word to bring up the contextual menu the contextual menu comes up as it should. I can select anything in it I choose. The problem is that when I let go of the trackpad the link or the word remains highlighted. This causes me to have to click somewhere else, on blank space for instance, to release the highlighted text or link.
This happens in Safari. It does not happen in Camino. Also, if I bring up a contextual menu in Safari using Control-click the same issue happens. The text or link remains highlighted afterwards.
The biggest nuisance this causes is that as long as a link remains highlighted the mouse arrow remains an arrow rather than turning into a hand and finger when hovering over another link.
Does anyone else hear experience this or has anyone hear heard of it? TIA
Greg

No, I think we are talking about entirely different things. What I am talking about is this...
For instance, I enter search terms in Google, press enter, it brings up a page of links.
I hover my mouse over one of the links and when I do the black mouse arrow turns into a hand with a pointing finger. I two-finger tap that link and select "Open Link in New Tab". It does. All is well.
Now, while still on that Google page I hover my mouse over yet another link.
If I am using Safari 3.0.3 or 3.0.4 that mouse arrow will turn into a hand with finger as soon as it hovers over another link.
If I am using any Safari version newer than 3.0.4 the mouse arrow will not turn into a hand with finger when I hover over another link. The reason is because when I two-finger tapped that first link the text of the link got "selected" i.e. highlighted. The mouse pointer is now locked into black-arrow-pointer-mode unless I tap the trackpad to release it from that mode.
In Safari 3.0.3 or 3.0.4 a two-finger tap on a link would not select the text of the link and therefore the pointer did not have to be released. It would immediately turn into a hand with finger as soon as it hovered over a new link.
So, why does this matter so much too me? It matters because many web pages have links on them that you cannot even tell are links until you hover your mouse over them, at which time the mouse arrow changes to a hand with pointing finger. If I two-finger tap a link to open it in another tab, and then I continue looking on that page for more links to tap, I cannot discover them. My mouse pointer arrow remains a black arrow even though it is hovering over a link. The reason it remains an arrow is because the first link I tapped selected the text that represents that link and my mouse is now not in the correct mode (mood?) to turn into a hand with finger. I can no longer identify links on that page unless I deliberately tap some place on the screen to release the selected text of that earlier link. The mouse pointer will no longer turn into a hand with pointing finger when hovering over a link. It will remain a black arrow until the text representing the previously tapped link has be released, or deselected.
Safari 303 and 304 did not select the text of a link when tapped with two-fingers. The mouse arrow was not being held hostage until it was deliberately released. Safari versions higher than 304 are a considerable nuisance due to this issue. It is very easy to forget to release the previously selected text and therefore it is easy to not even find more links on a page if they are the kind of links that the web author decided to make indistinguishable from the rest of the text in a sentence. Apparently the web author assumes you will suspect it to be a link and then hover your mouse over the text to see if it is a link.

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