Betty, I found this
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=28757
which may be applicable. It says that problems like yours are
typically caused when you have
- installed software that added a bad contextual menu item, or
- removed software that left a contextual menu item behind.
My own guess would have been a bad mouse/bad mouse driver.
Does the problem still occur with the mouse unplugged using
control-click to get the contextual menu?
If it's not the mouse, I'd look in the /Library/Contextual Menu Items
folders (your home one and the global one) and delete the ones
that got added last. A web search shows Stuffit as a likely culprit
in this regard, and I've had issues with the global contextual menu
items that GraphicConverter wants to install when you first start it
up.
An additional thing you can try: log into safe mode and see if
the problem occurs there. If it does, then you have a problem
with one of the things that safe mode turns off, like an
kernel extension, a startup item, or a login item.
Good luck.
betty
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:29:32 -0700
Using Control+click or right-click in most applications causes app
to crash.
Reinstalled updates, Safari, security patches, ran OnyX, repaired
permissions, ran repairs from X install disk. Problem started with
system update and installing Safari last week. Where do I start
throwing prefs, library/system files and add-ons away? There's not
much on this computer, but I don't want to start from scratch.
Contextual menus are useful. I miss them.
MacBook 2.16 GHz, 2007, OS X v.10.4.11 Betty
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