Connecting a Bluetooth Mouse is a Long Process Now

I have a MacMice Bluetooth mouse that I have had since I had OS 10.4 installed. In OS 10.4 it was easy to connect. Once I had paired the mouse with the computer all I had to do was turn on the mouse and wait a few seconds for it to connect. Then I installed OS 10.5 and it would no longer connect that easy. Under OS 10.5 I had to go up to the bluetooth menu item and go down to "MacMice" in the drop down menu and choose connect. All this with the trackpad. Then I can use the bluetooth mouse.
Now, I am on OS 10.6 and it still doesn't connect as easily as turning it on and Apple seems to have made it even harder to connect. I now have to go up to the Bluetooth menu item and go down to "MacMice" in the drop down menu but connect is no longer there. Now I have to click on "Open Mouse Preferences..." and then wait for it to find the mouse and then click on connect and then close the preferences. Talk about a bunch more steps that used to be just one step for me.
Any ideas on ways around this to get it to work as it did in OS 10.4?

You could try to find a new driver. I agree that the menu options are more convoluted. I've even been insulted (repeatedly) by selecting the previously paired mouse, finding no option to connect, going back to the menu (you can get there from the menu bar, by the way) to choose "set up a bluetooth device", and having the %$#& system tell me that my mouse is "already paired" and insisting that I acknowledge this before it will let me connect. But somehow, magically, my Kensington Bluetooth mouse is now happy with 10.6, and it no longer requires reconnection when I come back to the computer and wake up the display. Maybe the same lucky stroke will happen to you.

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