Dashboard Appears On Screen Randomly

I just purchased a iMac G5 isight. The dashboard appears out of nowhere when I am performing other tasks. I was just trying to send a group e-mail and when I clicked on "add" at the bottom of the list the dashboard appeared. That happened 3 times, after which I started over with the e-mail and that time no dashboard. Any suggestions?
Judy

It's the new mouse. You are accidentally pressing the scoll wheel button which is set by default to call up dashboard. There are actually four working buttons on the new mouse, a left and right (set by default to be the same), the scroll wheel button and the two on the side that you squeeze.
You can change the behaviour of these in System Preferences/Keyboard and Mouse/Mouse.
After 15 years using a single button mouse I'm having the same problems, but I have to say I like it (when I'm not pressing the wrong thing!), especially the scroll wheel.

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