Desktop slides mouse scrolls backward!

My desktop will suddenly slide off to the left when I am working on the internet for instance. To get it back I have to click on the bar at the bottom...and it slides back on the screen. At the same time my mouse is scrolling backwards! It is driving me crazy. If I want to go to the bottom of a page I have to swipe up, and to go up, down.
I use a magic mouse, OS Lion, which I just installed over Snow Lepard, and Mozilla- which also just did an update!
HELP I am going nuts!!!
Thanks

Ok I know now that the problem did start with the upgrade to Lion!
I had to go to the apple, system preferences, mouse and more gestures...to stop the scrolling issue I had to Uncheck scroll direction "natural" (really?? it is backwards), it actually shows a picture
And Uncheck swipe between full screen apps, and this is because I always use 2 fingers to swipe instead of one. If you only swipe with one you are ok...you can leave it checked.

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