Dashboard makes mouse jump

Sometimes when I open Dashboard and move my mouse, it resets the pointer to the origin (Top-Left) of the screen. I was just experimenting in it today and I realized that I can mouse anywhere around the screen as long as I don't contact the near-edges of a widget. I also just came to the realization that it's only if I make the same movement as the side of the widget I'm on (bottom->down; Top->up; Right->right; left->left).
I would show you an example, but the screen capture program I have somehow fixes the issue. O_o So, it seems to be a GUI problem. I'd already tried removing the Dashboard plist files—one didn't do anything and the other one made dashboard fail to work until I restored it. So now I'm clueless and slightly annoyed. Any suggestions?
Oh, and I'm running 10.4.7 with the following widgets:
Dictionary/Thesaurus
2 stickies
Sing that iTune!
Calculator
Weather
IP
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Well, in reply to this, my problem is definitely not hardware related. It happens whether I'm using the trackpad or a USB wireless mouse. The problem also only occurs while in the dashboard.
I do a lot with my computer and have a lot of cheats, hacks, and third party things installed on here, so there is probably a conflict somewhere that is causing my problem. At one point, I performed a safe boot and don't recall having the problem either, but I spent little time in that mode because it is a nuisance to me.
It's been two years since I've reinstalled my OS, so that may be the easiest thing to do right now instead of sorting through plists, extensions, and other things of the sort.
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