Keyboard and mouse freaking out

on my mac mini g4 1.42 i have an apple keyboard and one button usb mouse with the mouse connected through the keyboard and they keep dying on me.
example
i will just be browsing the internets or playing black and white and the mouse will stop working along with the keyboard more often then not it stops responding all together and i have to unplug/plug to get it to work again. I have not had the keyboard just stop on it's own while typing or anything and the mouse pad doesn't seem to make any difference. I have tried using different usb ports and the problem still persists.
I do not have another keyboard and mouse to try on my mini and while writing this i'm using the same keyboard and mouse on my macbook pro without any problems except for some minor mouse skips.
Please help this is has gotten to be rather annoying and thank you in advance for your help.

Hello:
Try resetting the PRAM and SMC.
Then trash a preference file (com.apple.bluetooth.plist) and restart.
Barry

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