Gah! Any new news on the mouse acceleration / sensitivity issue?

Greetings everyone! My first post! go me!
I just got my mackbook pro two days ago, and have been having a HECK of a time getting the mouse to 'feel' good. I'm using a USB Logitech optical mouse and have downloaded the logitech software.
The software provided by logitech provides lots of helpful options for button assignment and scroll wheel behavior, but has no sliders for acceleration or tracking sensitivity.
I've been to system preferences > mouse/kb and played with the mouse tracking sensitivity with no luck.
The problem is that when moving the mouse small distances, the acceleration seems to be more pronounced and moving my cursor a few dozen pixels takes way more movement than I want it to.
I searched the forums for similar issues and came accross mousezoom and imousefix, both of which helped a lot on the larger scale of moving the cursor screen wide, but did nothing to help the problem of finite movement. Even imousefix, which has a checkbox for 'turn off acceleration' doesnt actually eliminate the acceleration.
I tried using the two tools in conjunction and didnt have very good results.
I was hoping that in the last several months since those threads were posted there has been some new development or someone who may have something to suggest
Please help! I love my macbook but this mouse movement is *mind numbing* I'd rather I was able to tweak it than just be told 'get used to it'

That's my impression too. Changing the mouse slider results directly in different values for com.apple.mouse.scaling. You can see this by running this command after changing the slider:
defaults read -globalDomain com.apple.mouse.scaling
I'm a long time Mac fan and first time Mac owner and the lack of control over the mouse is incredibly frustrating. Both Windows and Linux (Gnome and presumably KDE) offer very fine control over both tracking speed AND acceleration level separately. Why Apple would leave this out of OS X is a mystery.
I've had fair results with MouseFix (http://www.knockknock.org.uk/mac/) but there's no way to make those settings stick when you open up System Preferences and hit the Mouse panel. That program is definitely able to modify the right parameter but it is using a deprecated API to do so. Argh!
Mac Mini 1.66 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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