Magic Mouse tracking problem

OK...it's all pretty and shiny so I bought it. Installed the mouse software update to Snow Leopard and though it appears to be installed just fine, the tracking rate is SLOWWWWWWW, even though I have it set to the highest tracking setting.
With my Wireless Mighty Mouse on a new 24" LED Cinema it takes no more than two inches of mouse travel on the pad to go from one side of the monitor to the other with the pointer. With the Magic Mouse my mouse pad isn't wide enough! Seriously, with the tracking set to maximum for both mice the Magic Mouse moves about 3/4 way across my monitor when traveling the entire nine inches of my mouse pad.
The Mighty Mouse was already bad enough at this (it had to be on the max tracking setting) but this isn't right. Unless someone has a fix this goes back to the store (it's already out of use). Thanks.

Yes...fully understand the concept of acceleration, but it's still not working properly for me. It is definitely better after I changed the tracking limit to "5" in Terminal, but the left-right distance on my 24" monitor is still nearly all the width of my mouse pad, where it is about two inches with the Mighty Mouse.
I use SteerMouse only for it's Snap-To feature (something Apple simply has never done in all these years) but it's a pref pane and I've completely uninstalled it trying to make a difference, but it doesn't. In fact, it also has a tracking increase feature that also helps a little...but just not enough.

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