Lion screen sharing breaks mouse for local user.

I think I've discovered a bug. I have a new iMac 27" on 10.7.2 and a MBP on 10.7.2. The iMac has two accounts created, mine is the administrator, my girlfriends account is standard user. She likes to use the iMac with the bigger screen so I retreat to the MBP and use screen sharing to continue working on my documents that are under may account.
The problem is that the mouse will stop working for my girlfrends account when I have Screen Sharing running. Her mouse becomes unresponsive and just jumps around the screen once in a while. As soon as I close Screen Sharing her mouse returns to normal behavior.
Has anyone heard of this?
I tried creating another standard account as a test, same problem.
Thanks,
Ron

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