Motion Plus games hang when motion plus attached to Wiimote

I'm having trouble with Wii Motion Plus games whenever I have the motion plus attached to my Wiimote. When I played Wii Sports Resort for the first time, it worked perfectly with the skyjumping tutorial but after that when I navigate the menu for a while and select a sports game, the cursor stops working and the game doesn't seem to respond to the Wii Remote anymore although the 1st player light is on. The background and music are still working, so the whole game doesn't completely hang, it's just that the game doesn't respond to the Wiimote anymore.

Other games like Wii Play Motion and Fling Smash hang at the start menu in the same way from the get-go, the cursor doesn't respond and pressing a & b buttons to start the game doesn't work either although the 1st player light on the Wii Remote is on.

This only happens with Motion Plus games, I tried playing another game that doesn't require Motion Plus to check if Motion Plus somehow interrupts the Wiimote and sensor bar in some way but it works perfectly fine, the cursor doesn't hang and the games respond to the buttons I'm pressing. I'm using dolphin 4.0 on OSX, my specs are:

Processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5

Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB

I just want to know if this is a common problem and is there a solution for this? I would really appreciate the help.