2 mouse-related issues on MBP Retina

Hello,
Recently got my hands on a MBP Retina, running 10.8.1. I'm having two problems related to my mouse. I'm using an old Kensington Optical Elite wired mouse. I know it's old and outdated, but I like it and believe that it should be working fine (as it did on my older laptop).
Two things I am having problems with:
-Tracking speed. Tracking speed is very slow, and doesn't seem to be effected at all by the tracking speed system setting.
-Button mapping. Can't find a way to custom configure the buttons, though some of them seem to be mapped already.
Does anyone know if there is a solution to this other than buying a new mouse?
Thank you.

tracking speed can be sped up using the mouse settings under system preferences.
if you want more than two buttons you need to get an app to deal with that... apple engineers are very single minded, so no out of the box support for more buttons.

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