Adjust the 'aim' of the mouse pointer

Hello,
Back in the days of Tiger I used a little haxie called Might Mouse from Unsanity. This allowed me to tweak the click point of the mouse cursor. By default the click point of the mac's cursor is a few pixels within the cursor image itself.
Call me crazy, but I feel the 'aim' of the mouse cursor should be the very tip of the mouse. If you're unsure of what I'm talking about, click and drag on an empty space on the desktop. You should be creating a selection square. If you're dragging down and to the right, the bottom right corner of the square will line up with upper left of the mouse cursor. Now notice where the selection box meets the mouse. It's not exactly at the tip of the mouse, but a few pixels behind the tip.
When you magnify the mouse cursor, this issue is magnified as well. With the upgrade to leopard most Unsanity apps are broken... And for all intents and purposes dead.
Does anyone know of an app that lets you adjust the click point or 'aim' of the mouse pointer? I thought I'd eventually just get used to it, buts it's driving me crazy!
Thanks.

Pinpoint- Used to create animations around the mouse, and maybe custom cursors. But I'm ignorant of how to use quartz composer to make my own cursor to use in the app.
MoundoMouse- Used to resize and move windows with mouse movements (w/o actually clicking the window) ...Might keep this one for the ‘window focus follows mouse’, reminded me of the old UNIX box I worked on for a few years. The mouse focus can be very handy.
SteerMouse- Used to add more control to unsupported mouses and extra control over tracking/acceleration and cursor snapping to buttons. ...Might keep this one. Hopefully I can turn down the horizontal scrolling speed of the scrollball... always seems way to fast. Not sure as it needs a restart, and I'm converting vids...
*...Sadly, none of these seem to have the feature I was talking about. Please let me know if I missed something.*
However, thank you for your response!

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