On 5/28/2011 5:29 PM PT, robin typed:

| I fixed it by getting a new mouse. The one that failed
| was an MS one.
|
| Was it a ball mouse? It might have just needed the ball and rollers cleaned.

It was a ball mouse, and no, it didn't need cleaning;
I regularly have to do it with ball mouses.

The mouse in question would, just by itself, with no-one touching it,
jump erratically around the screen.

It happened on other computers too?
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