Microsoft Explorer Mouse and Illustrator CS4

Hi,
Has anyone had experience using the Microsoft Explorer Mouse with Illustrator CS4? The mouse wheel barely seems to work. Using your finger doesn't work, I need to use my other hand just to give enough rotation to make it work.
It worked fine on CS3.
And it continues to work fine in Photoshop and every other application of tried, just not Illustrator. I can't imagine what the problem could be.
Any help or even suggestions for solving this would be appreciated. Trying to do anything in Illustrator without a mousewheel is a nightmare!!!

Follow this link to download the driver for Mac http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/DownloadResult.aspx?prod=m_sw om&os=macos10&lang=en&driverVersion=
Dale

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