Wired Mouse and Trackpad selecting everything on desktop or in applications.

The wired mouse is a 3 button Apple product and I only put into service because the trackpad went south. I even took my wife's trackpad and set it up and had the same result. I just tried changing the dragging preference and things have settled down for now, until I started typing this response and the selection bar is appearing at random locations in this text and 'selecting all' as I finish this. Aaargh.

Switching the Primary to the right button has seemingly corrected the issue at the moment, I will continue to relearn the new positioning. But as I type the problem reappears. Now it is getting difficult to complete this session of typing.

The safe boot found a lengthy list of permissions in need of repair the first few are interesting the remainder seem to be all printer. The first one pasted here is the only one that had the 'warning' notation (the ubiquitous ignore this information software litter). The problem persisted in safe mode and is still present upon normal reboot. The only 3rd party prefs showing in system prefs was Adobe Flash. Nothing in accounts was out of the ordinary. The last list of startupitems had a couple of printer items that were crossed out and the folder is now empty with the exception of a long list of invisbile files associated with the /private/var/run/ in all of the listed locations. Interestingly all that clicking and scrolling with the trackpad was error free. When I went to reload a few Safari pages the problem reappeared. The whole problem started with the trackpad, which I stopped using and reinstalled the wired mouse. When the mouse started acting up, is when I tried here. Thank you for your efforts by the way. Would you have any other ideas. Does it not seem to be software related because it is affecting a wired/wireless interface. Where is the common point for these guys? Thanks again.

Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”

Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent” has been modified and will not be repaired.

Connected items: Wired Apple Keyboard, Apple BT Trackpad, 4 port powered USB hub (w/HP printer and 18 in 1 media card reader/writer), 500GB OneTouch4 Plus external HD via USB, and that's it. This was quit difficult to get this text entered and input via the Forum. The insertion selection bar is opening anything it scrolls over, and any open doc is being minimized and sent down to the docking station. I have to maneuver the insertion bar around icons etc. Thanks again.

Problem still persists with KP and Hub disconnected. Another aspect is that when I put the computer to sleep, after a few minutes it will awaken on its own. Typing in text edit right now and it is auto select the last character/word/all until I click off in a blank area. My old G5 never gave me this much trouble, nor my 1st gen IMac, Performa Mac, 1st gen Mac, Apple II+.

Only BT is the trackpad, Airport is off (always is), Console has logs in a folder called 501, and they look to be normal (rather large files) activity. With the way my mouse control is working really hard to examine closely, constantly selecting and click dragging whatever is on screen.

The last console log is dated 2011-07-02 for OS 10.4.11. The other logs in folder 501 are console.log.0 thru .9 and have even earlier header dates. Nothing appears on them while I have been typing or mousing

When I put the puke to sleep, it wakes up on its own after a few minutes. If that helps.