Lethargic Mouse under Leopard

Any mouse I try under Mac OS X seems sluggish and lethargic. I have had to use a little util called SteerMouse to up the sensitivity considerabily. It's useable but my mothers new iMac it's horrible. I have tried alsorts of spare mice and surfaces and it's made hardly any difference.
Anyone got any tips?

Have you set your "Tracking" speed to highest in System Preferences >> Keyboard & Mouse >> Mouse?
Assuming you've done that, create a new account, name it "test" and see how your mouse works in that User acct? (That will tell if your problem is systemwide or limited to your User acct.) This account is just for test, do nothing further with it.
Open System Preferences >> Accounts >> "+" make it an admin account.
Let us know and we'll troubleshoot this further.
-mj
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    Maybe you met one which I ignored.
    Knowing such of these problems, I decided to use Tiger as my main operating system.
    Here, as I play safety, Leopard is always in test, not in real use.
    Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 19 janvier 2008 17:20:41)

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