Hi Ehteos,

The case about the joystick acting as a mouse; is that only inside FFXIV or is it systemwide.
On my Mac (OSX) I use Gamepad Companion (http://www.carvware.com/gamepadcompanion.html), but I don't know an alternative for that on Windows. The general idea what Gamepad Companion does is map keyboard keys or mouse actions to the controller's button (I do it with a PS3 controller).

For example I set up for my X button emulate a ENTER key and my O button to emulate a ESC key etc.

When you get something like this to work you don't need to configure a Gamepad anymore in FFXIV Config, because you emulate your keyboard keys. Bonus you get with doing this is that your game will never crash if your battery dies or USB cord pops by accident.