(Not sure if you are the same person…) but Tommy shared a secret trick that they have probably built into SketchUp to work-around the issue. There is a registry key to flip the cursors correct:
%(#000000)[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SketchUp\SketchUp 2013\Preferences\FlipCursors = 1 (DWORD)]
https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/sketchup/fN_Vp_dx-fQ/Ix-lVoEp0csJ