Mac Mini with OS 10.4.9 running Appleworks 6

I am running a Mac Mini (Intel) OS 10.4.9 and have installed Appleworks 6 which I had from my old G3. The problem is, my microsoft mouse will not scroll up and down on a document. Now then, this new Mac Mini is my wife's and she needs the scrolling feature. I also have the same Mac Mini with Appleworks 6 installed and the mouse scrolling feature works fine. This did not come easy as when I first got my Mac Mini, I spent a lot of phone time with an excellent tech rep at Apple. He made it oh, so simple. I just can't remember how he did it.
My current call to Apple tech support came to the conclusion that I need to take my wife's Mac Mini to a "Apple Genius Store" (if I can find it) and have them try and get the mouse scrolling to work. By the way, I have tried the iWork trial thing and perhaps I'm set in my old age, but I do like Appleworks 6 much better. Thank you for reading and considering my question.
Mac Mini 1,1   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

There's nothing at all wrong with preferring APpleWorks and wanting to continue using it. It's a bit unfashionable these days, but there are many people who have discovered how powerful, flexible and easy it is to use and continue to use it despite the development of alternatives!
Of course, it does have the drawback of not being intel native, so performance on intel-based Macs will be relatively poor in comparison to iWork, but if that doesn't cause you any problems in use, then it's purely a matter of what you want to use not what anyone else thinks is appropriate!
That said, what exactly is the problem? Can you scroll by clicking the scroll arrows and dragging the scroll bar, but not by using the mouse wheel?

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