Mac won't sleep unless Magic Mouse off

Hi
Since getting a Magic Mouse a few days ago I've noticed that my Mac will no longer sleep unless I turn the mouse completely off.
If I put the Mac to sleep it wakes again within a few seconds. At the moment I'm having to sleep the Mac and quickly turn off the mouse before it wakes the Mac.
Is this normal? Have a missed a preference that will prevent this from happening?
Thanks

I have the same problem. I have a three month old iMac and bought a Magic Mouse last week. Since then iMac 'mostly' won't sleep (it will sometimes). At first I thought it was Safari with the new mouse, as closing Safari allowed the iMac to Sleep but now I think it is just the mouse.
I phoned Apple they said uncheck "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep.." in the energy saving preferences but that didn't work. They also said to delete the energy saving settings file from the system library folder but that didn't work.
I am resorting to turning the mouse off now when I am done which is rubbish as it takes ages to reconnect when I want to use the iMac again.
if I plug in my old mouse there are no issues at all. I test sleeping by selectig apple->sleep with the Magic Mouse connected it sleeps and the immediately wakes up again. I've tried changing all the enegry saving preferences with no effect.

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Mozilla/4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
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Mozilla/4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
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