Magic Mouse beyond bizarre behaviour Snow Leopard imac

I have a peculiar problem with my Magic Mouse. I have an imac which is about 18 months old .The O.S. is Snow Leopard 6.2. No problems until 2 or 3 months ago when the cursor started to vanish and would only reappear when I hung it over the Safari browser.. ?.
I attempted the fixes that seemed closest to the problem from the discussions pages and gave up - none worked. I bought the latest Magic Mouse a week ago. Same problem. It's almost certainly, 'operator error', but it seems that it's a glitch no one else has encountered. I would appreciate any thoughts on this.
Thank you
Roger Faversham
UK

The ball is dirty, they have a history of accumulating dirt and grime on them so that's my best guess. When I used one what worked well was rolling the ball very very vigorously on a white sheet of paper on a hard flat surface. Do this for about 60 seconds then see if that took care of it.
NOTE: My error I misread and thought you wrote Mighty Mouse. Please disregard.

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