Magic mouse performance differs from macbook pro to macpro

My magic mouse works beautifully on my macbook pro 2.2 GHz and it works horribly on my mac pro 3.0 GHz tower, why? While using the mouse on my macpro it's slow, it's not very responsive, it's quirky. On the macbook pro it's perfect.

You know my issue is similar but with the same computer a early 2009 Mac Mini. Sometimes when I boot into OS X Snow Leopard my Magic mouse tracks fine just at the right speed. But sometimes I boot into OS X and its slow to track and I have to max out tracking speed.

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