Apple Bluetooth mouse battery replacement

What is the best procedure to replace the batteries in the Apple blue tooth mouse? When ever I get the "LOW BATT" signal on the mouse, I need to shut down the computer first, replace the batteries, restart the computer (G5). If I try to flip the mouse over to replace the batteries while the computer is still on the mouse will not re-connect to the computer.
Thanks in advance for your replies.

Hi again, Max!
I heartily apologize — on two fronts:
• I neglected to voice a warm welcome to Apple Discussions!
• Absolutely no apologies are required on your part. My mistake in assuming; I'm happy to explain what I know.
To find out about your Bluetooth Firmware — and lots more! Go to the blue Apple menu and select the first choice, "About This Mac." Exciting, huh? Then click on "More Info." This will open a very useful application called "System Profiler." (Fyi, the application is actually located inside the Utilities folder in the Applications folder on your HD.)
With Profiler open, look at the left-hand part of the pane. Click (if necessary) to turn the gray triangle beside "Hardware" so its point is pointing down instead of to the right. Select Bluetooth from the list thus uncovered, and you'll see a lot of data on the right-hand side. (This procedure also holds for a lot of other data that may be viewed via the System Profiler. Relevant parts of this info may be helpful to know and convey when you ask for help here or from a technician.)
Now, this may be a little confusing... Your iMac G5's Firmware version is shown within the Bluetooth data we've just found. Yours probably reads "3.1xxx" (xxx perhaps being 965, but I'm not sure). Anyway, you may want to download and run Bluetooth Firmware Updater 1.2 as a check that your firmware is up to date. More in a minute on this.
But for some reason, the Bluetooth software version isn't clearly shown here. (I guess because it's the "Hardware" part of the profile — Duh — but still.) Since we're here, move down within System Preferences to Software. There are quite a few Bluetooth-related software components — let's just check one or two: e.g., under "Applications," you'll see "Bluetooth Explorer" and under "Extensions," you'll see "IOBluetoothFamily" among others. I believe the current versions for these apps 1.6 (it is for my eMac).
Fyi, the current Bluetooth software download page is here. You can check for future updates via the main Bluetooth Support page.
Back to Firmware Updating for a moment. Fwiw, I had an interesting experience running the Firmware Updater myself recently — some of the minutae may help explain the process if and when you decide to try this or future updaters. You can read about it here.
I hope this makes sense, and adds more clarity than confusion. Ask away as needed,
Sincerely,
Dean

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