Unsuccessful double click on G5 icons: what does it mean?!?

I've got this afternoon a 2nd hand G5 Power Mac (1st generation, 1.6 GHz, 1 GB Ram, 10.5.8). So far so good, I've run Rember, Preferential Treatment, Onyx, Disk Utility, CPUTest and all tests have been passed. However something strange is also happening: quite often but also randomly when I doubleclick on an icon, it's highlighted but then it doesn't open, then by keeping doublecklicking the icon will eventually open at the 3rd or 4th try (it happens both with folders or applications) but still it's annoying, and I wonder how to solve it. Apparently (but I haven't tested for a long time) there's no problem by launching an application with a single click on the dock, or even once it has been highlighted by using cmd-o. I've been wondering if it was the mouse connected to the keyboard, but it's the same if it's directly connected to the G5... any idea?!?

well, already "sorted": it was the previous owner who had set the doubleclick speed at the maximum, and it didn't pick my "slow" clicks

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