Magic Mouse Not Recognized Not Recognized as Such

I just got a Magic Mouse for my Mac Pro (2.8GHz 8-processor, late-2008), running 10.5.8. It connects through Bluetooth fine, but it doesn't seem to be recognized as a Magic Mouse. The "magic" features don't seem to be working. It only seems to do left- and right-clicks.
I also see that it doesn't seem to show up in the System Preferences Keyboard&Mouse panel, Bluetooth tab. No name or battery level is shown.
Yes, I did do a Software Update before and after pairing. Actually, come to think of it, that's not exactly true: Before pairing, I launched Software Update and found that it only had a Security Update pending (very unlikely to have anything to do with the mouse), so I did the pairing and then did the security update. After rebooting from that, I launched Software Update, and it said that I am up-to-date.
The book and the Magic-Mouse box say that 10.5.8 is a sufficiently high OSX version.
Any ideas on this? Thanks, everybody!

ok my mistake, i DID have USBOverdrive on my computer.
So here's the exact way to solve the problem:
(1) just re-download and re-install USBOverdrive (www.usboverdrive.com)
(2) restart when prompted
(3) go to the usboverdrive system preferences panel and UNINSTALL IT
(4) restart whether or not prompted
(this SHOULD fix the problem at this point, if not, see further below)
(5) open the bluetooth preferences (or access from the menu) and add a new bluetooth device
(6) pair your trackpad
(7) it is probably working now; but go to the trackpad preferences pane to be sure that you're seeing the new magic trackpad preferences rather than the old macbook pro preferencdes
IF THIS DID NOT WORK:
(8) you need to find ALL references for any file containing "usboverdrive" in the name. possible places to look include:
Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences
Macintosh HD/System/Library/Extensions
Macintosh HD/Users/YOURNAME/Library/Preferences
(9) DELETE ANY AND ALL FILES CONTANING "USBOVERDRIVE"
(10) restart your computer. Everything should be working now
Good luck!

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