Don't want random keyboard & mouse events to wake from sleep

is there any way to prevent a random keyboard press or mouse movement from waking up the computer? a terminal setting or something? ideally, i'd just like to use the power button to do this--or at the very least to completely disable the mouse's ability to wake the machine, and specify a certain key or something.
seems like an obvious setting that's missing...or that i'm overlooking...?
thanks!
various Macs   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

markhimself wrote:
Is there any way to disable the mouse from waking from sleep mode? Additionally, can you disable the mouse from waking the display from display sleep only? And is this done the same way?
Thanks.
If it's a BlueTooth mouse you can uncheck the option in the Keyboard & Mouse preferences.

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