Basically, I have problems selection things in the 3d window. Often it will selection a brush or face behind the front one I click on, or select nothing at all.

Yes, I tried reversing the selection order. I'm having this problem with the texture tool as well, which is really annoying. I think I remember having this bug before and fixing it somehow, but I just installed Hammer on my laptop and I can't seem to get it sorted. Could someone help me?

Does this only happen when you are particularly near the face in question? If so it happens to me as well, and the only solution seems to be to backpedal a little and then select it.

On the other hand, this could be caused by you not realizing there is the depth selection thing in the 3D views now, so when you hold down the mouse button it will switch between objects deeper in the viewport? I'm sure you knew of this already, but worth asking!

I know about the depth selection thing where you hold down, but that doesn't really solve my problem. It's still inconsistent which brush gets picked first, and having to cycle through every time I want to select a brush is a pain in the ass. And that's no help at all with the texture tool.

I guess I can try updating the drivers. But I'm not sure where I'll find drivers for a crappy 8mb Trident laptop card. Naturally I got this thing right before they started putting decent cards in laptops

I'll try that 'stepping back' bit, too, though I don't think the distance seemed to matter.