Annoyingly scroll wheel behavior in Safari

I recently had to remove the Logitech drivers from my Mac after a series of kernel panics it was causing (seems to clash with some of the recent updates to 10.4.) The mouse still works, but now I no longer have granular control over its functionality and Logitech has discontinued this mouse so I don't think the driver will be updated.
One of the problems I'm encountering is acceleration in Safari when using the scroll wheel. With the Logitech drivers installed, it was a flat, fast speed. Without, Safari seems to want to do this wonky thing where it tries to figure out how fast I want to go and accelerate the scrolling based on how much I'm moving the scroll wheel. (Apple does some great design and UI stuff, but sorry, this is just over-thinking something painfully simple.) So now I have to do these enormous finger motions just to scroll through a page with the scroll wheel whereas I used to be able to do one or two movements.
Anyone know of a program or a plist I can edit to stop Safari from doing this? It doesn't happen in any other application, just Safari.
Secondly, I've lost the ability to use the scroll wheel click as an Apple+click which was also very convenient in Safari for opening links in other tabs.

i just went to a carboot sale and bought a logitech 2 click - scrollwheel mouse for £1 (50c)
and it works fine without any drivers -
1. the wheel as a click-link-opening-in-new-page on a web page works fine
2. the scrolling down the webpage - well it was a bit jerky and related to my finger movement on the wheel to start with - but i went to system prefs and increased the speed of scroll wheel under keyboard and mouse settings and it now is fine - i find it isnt based on smooth scrolling , but incremental

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