Xorg/Gnome 2.16 stops responding to mouse clicks

[Darren David]

hey all-

I've got an issue where Xorg/Gnome 2.16 stops responding to mouse clicks 
- I can click, say, 3 or 4 times once Xorg first launches, but then it's 
hit and miss. Some interface elements are clickable, most are not. I 
have no problem moving the mouse around. Sometimes, intermittently, the 
ability to click will be restored. I was eager to blame my wireless 
logitech mouse, but if connectivity were an issue then I would also have 
issues moving the pointer around. I can't tell you when the problem 
started or for how long it's been going on, I haven't been running Xorg 
for many months now, so it's all new to me. PRior to this issue, my 
entire nautils desktop background vanished, and I reinstalled Gnome to 
fix it.

Corruption somewhere? Driver issue? Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Darren David