I've been away from SC for a while (RL's been a real virgin!), but something's happened and I'm not sure what...
Used to be that the cursor was normally an arrow and I could click on buildings to get info on them - including budget tweaks for schools/clinics/water pumps/power plants/etc - but for some reason all I have now is that stupid little Win7 blue swirley circle dealybobber. I can right-click and zoom-to whatever (which I don't remember it doing before). Thinking perhaps something got corrupted during my negligence, I nuked the existing copy and did a brand-new reinstall from the ground up - and it's exactly the same.
Any notions on what's going on and how to get the game back running the way it's supposed to?
That's normal. Hit the / button and you can click on the buildings to get info.