Mouse Pointer Disappearing and reappearing

For the past few days my Mouse Pointer will randomly disappear for unspecified lengths and then reappear. I am using the new Blue Tooth Magic Mouse. It also happens with a wired mouse. I have searched high and low for an answer. I however fall to anyone in this group that would know the answer. Thanks.

I'm having the same problem, it just started this morning when i did system updates "Security Update 2010-003", "iTunes v. 9.1.1", "Safari 4.0.5", "AirPort Base Station 5.5.1", "Xcode 3.2.2".
I am using a Mac Pro with a Microsoft mouse, so it has nothing to do with the magic mouse. It's really annoying and making it hard to work! It affects many apps as far as I can tell.
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 14 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D573)
Kernel Version: Darwin 10.3.0

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