Disappearing Mouse Problem

When surfing in Safari I will occasionally have an issue where the mouse will disappear on me. The circumstances around this are odd. When I bring the mouse up to the toolbar and it hovers over any of my bookmark buttons, the mouse will disappear. It will stay invisible until it is moved across any text field, even if it is moved outside of the safari window, although there are some other objects which will reactivate the mouse as well. I notice this most consistently when visiting the site www.azlyrics.com (which does not load properly initially, you have to hit the back and forward buttons a couple of times for some reason to get the site to load.) I use the safari helper program saft, but this occurred before I installed saft as well. It is a very odd and annoying situation. Can anyone offer any assistance to this, or is this a bug in Safari for which I will have to wait for a fix. Thanks.
Powerbook G4 1.25Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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reads:
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I don't see any "solved" answer here; if there is
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Hi original_fuzzball,
Only the Original Poster of the Question is the one that can mark
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Originally posted by Raven_
hi
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