mighty mouse is going wrong

wel i have the mighty mouse (wired) which came with my imac.

it is scrolling like 10 lines at a time and an example of this is on the mac-forums home page it takes a few clicks (of the wheel) to get it to the bottom it is just too fast

i have tried the system prefs and restarting etc

nothing works

Something must work, chris ... have you rebooted? What if you turn the Tracking down?

tracking works fine

just the scrolling setting.

also clicking the middle button which should bring up dashboard wont work - same with the expose buttons. on either side

help !

it is the same with any mice that i have tried. very annoying.

any ideas ?

This is difficult to troubleshoot .... It's also wierd that it does it with other mice too?

What if you create another account to test it out again?

i will create another account right now.

2 mins and will reply.

ok it still doesnt make a difference on the 'test account' as i called it.

i tried changing the scrolling speed and that doesnt do anything,

any ideas ?

I wonder if the keyboard/mouse preference pane got messed up? Was looking for a .plist for it but all I can find so far is the keyboard preference pane. When I click on that in the Library it brings up your mouse settings.

Since you did say it messes up with other mice, it can not be the Mighty Mouse.

Not many, have you tried unplugging it and other usb devices and reconnecting? Also, have you added any new hardware to your setup recently? Or made any changes at all?

ok.

extra info: it happens with the other mouse i tried on it as well.
expose, dashboard button dont work either.

no the hardware is all the same. i will try unplugging all the usb devices now

ok i have tried unplugging all usb devices and plugging them back in. no luck.

Have you fiddled around in the Prefs, changing all the settings around ... it's worth a try.

yh i have
the tracking setting works but not the scrolling setting

this is what mine looks like

Just for clarifications sake ... you have tried assigning different functions to the scroll ball, left/right click and the squeezy bits on the sides?

i havnt. will try now.

that doesnt work.

Does my attached image mirror what you see in your System Profiler (Blue apple icon -> About This Mac -> More Info)

mines looks like this.

Chris,

You need to highlight the Apple Optical USB Mouse so that the correct info is displayed.