Anyway to speed up wireless mighty mouse tracking??

i finally made the plunge and added a WMM to my dual G5 2.5MHz. I love the wireless part and will likely add the keyboard later. The biggest problem I'm having is that tracking is slow. Not jumpy like other folks are experiencing, just slow. I've got the older 23" Cinema HD monitor and I prefer a large movement of the pointer to a small input of the mouse. I've got the tracking speed maxed out on the control panel. Any way to make it faster? thanks.

Thank you very much for your help - it is exactly as you describe:
A login / logout is needed for the changes to take effect (and I'm embarrassed I didn't think of that myself!), and then any subsequent changes in the Keyboard/Mouse pref pane overwrite this, so you have to re-edit the plist and logout and back in again.
Many thanks!
EDIT: I wanted to mark this as "solved", but can't. I'm guessing its cos I didn't ask the original question...

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Yes I did install the software. I'm pretty sure I'm only using one finger. I can't see any perceptible difference between the way I'm using the wired and the wireless versions. Maybe the wired version is less sensitive. Also there is big difference in the weight of the two. The wireless is heavier (due to the batteries I imagine) and the wired seems downright feather light compared to it.
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People who smoke, and those whose hands get oily or grubby for one reason or another, seem to have more problems with this issue, and might want to think about a regular 'wheel" mouse instead, but I've found that a minute of preventative maintenance every few days keeps my MM's scrolling beautifully in all directions. I haven't noticed any difference in the behaviour of the wireless or wired models in this respect. They both use the same scroll ball mechanism, so this isn't surprising.
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HT2845 why doesn't my mighty mouse track ball scroll up or down vertically?

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New ones are not that expensive, but I would try running it up and down (vigorously) on microfiber cloth or a towel or something.
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