What has happened to 'select' in Mountain Lion?

I have two problems with selecting in Mountain Lion.
1. I can no longer drag select on Mail and other rpograms. I have to do a cmd A and then delete in the trash, for instance. I used to beable to select all of the items with a mouse drag.
2. Even when I do a cmd A, if I then right click to open, for instance, I find that it has selected the one item that is under the mouse pointer rather than all of the selected items.
Is there somewhere that I can put back these to the old way?
David

I'm experiencing the same problem 1 in Mountain Lion's Mail, but not in other apps (tested the Finder and Contacts) where click+drag still works as it used to selecting adjacent items in the list.
It seems that in Mail the setting of verticalMotionCanBeginDrag has been changed to YES.
As for point 2 I can't confirm your report. I can open all selected items with right click.
Best,
Erne.

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