Magic Mouse "click and hold" letting go?

When I try to hold down a click, this includes drawing in Photoshop, the mouse suddenly gives up and "lets go," even though my hand is still holding the button down without releasing. In Photoshop this results in a visually unbroken stroke which is seen by the application as two (or more) strokes (taking multiple undo's, for example).
Similarly, when holding the button down over a window's close button, the close command is sent after a few seconds, again even though my hand is still not releasing the button.
With older mice, the click command isn't sent until one releases the button.
Anyone have any idea if this is normal behavior for this mouse, or if there's a way to adjust it?

My update is that it appears NOT to be happening any more, and I'm not sure why, or what changed. I'd sort of gotten used to it, but as I write this, I can't get it to recur.
Thanks for the suggestion. When it was happening, there was no difference in behavior whether the mouse is held down in "clicked" position with a lot of force versus a "normal" amount of force. I believe it's a software issue. I tested the same mouse with different machines running Snow Leopard, and I have yet to replicate the behavior on them. I think it had something to do with my machine (Mac Pro) running Leopard, using a mouse that was designed, I believe, with Snow Leopard in mind. I'm still using Leopard, but at the moment it's not misbehaving.
I'm surprised I couldn't find anyone else having the same issue (aside from Michael Spryn above), after some extensive Google searches.
Weird annoyance, but seemingly gone for now.

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