Xbox 360 controller seems to be misbehaving

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My controller is fine, just to get that out of the way.
But I have been noticing an annoying thing I can't seem to figure out. When I go to the ppsspp menu and settings and all that, pressing right on the D-Pad also exits one level back out of the menu, as if I am pressing B/◯ or whatever.
I'm confused though cus I went over again and again the controller layout. I even went so far as to change where the keyboard arrow keys were set to circle, square, cross, triangle JUST IN CASE somehow the D-Pad was being translated to arrow keys on a keyboard.

But nope, still doing it. I feel like this is a familiar problem, but I don't know what would be causing it and it's really frustrating and aggravating. I just want to navigate the menu easily.