Discouraging magic mouse behavior in Windows

Hi,
I've got my 27" Mac running Windows XP Pro in Bootcamp mode. I love Mac's overall design, but I hate (HATE) wireless Magic Mouse bahavior:
1. The first and most awful thing is scrolling. It's too sensitive, it's unpredictable and works whenever I don't need it. The mouse scrolls when I nearly touch the surface with the middle finger, sometimes I have a feeling that I don't even touch the surface and it still scrolls. Sometimes I just left-click and it scrolls. In some programs it's not a problem, just a slight scroll and nothing bad really happens. But in some other scrolling doesn't let me do my work - Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, Google Maps. And it happens 20+ times a day. I already teached myself to hold my hand like a Mantis, but it still happens.
Please make a driver with sinsitivity adjustments. So it would scroll only when I really need it. It would also be good to restrict scrolling area to the middle or to make two finger scroll only (like on MacBook Pro).
2. Right mouse click. In Corel Draw I frequently need to make a duplicate object by dragging an object and press right button while draggin. It's impossible with Magic mouse.
3. Sudden mouse freezes. Sometimes it looks like your mouse is dead and it takes up to 30 seconds to wake up. It's so unpleasant and feels like you have lost control over your roght hand and make you panic. Please icrease mouse sleep timer and make it more visually clear that your mouse is speeping and not paralyzed...
4. Battery life info - please redesign Bootcamp control panel to show keyboard and mouse battery levels and make some notifications about low level.
5. Please make the same driver for windows as you have for Mac. Or make it possible for 3rd party developers to make such a driver.
I love Magic Mouse (how it looks) and I don't want to replace it with some Logitec, but with 10$ Logitec I was 100% more efficient.

Not sure if this will make you feel better but I have the exact same problems on my mac. Specifically in Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro (which really ***** cause sideways scroll scrubs video so I'm constantly jumping back and forth 30-60 seconds!), Motion and Color. It's AMAZINGLY frustrating. I literally cannot use it anymore.
I will admit though, it's the most accurate wireless mouse I have used.
Apple! Can you please create an option in the preference pane where we can disable scrolling in certain applications!! PLEASE!!! And possibly to disable sideways scrolling all together. These are great features but until they're perfected please give us an "opt out" option.

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The article below may be able to help you with this issue.
Click on the link below to see more details and screenshots.
I've quoted some helpful highlights for you:
Troubleshooting wireless mouse and keyboard issues
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