Microsoft Keyboard & Mouse

I have intellipoint & type software installed from snow leopard to use with my microsoft peripherals and they have been working perfectly fine but after the upgrade to Lion it seems that these utilities are now useless. You can still choose settings like in SL, but they don't have any effect at all. For example, the back/forward buttons on my mouse no longer work. Has anyone found a Lion compatible version for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. Scrolling using the scroll wheel used to be smooth in SL however, this does not seem to be the case with Lion, scrolling on the scroll wheel is done in increments with no smoothing - it's jumpy. Thank you to anyone who could also help me with this issue

I have intellipoint & type software installed from snow leopard to use with my microsoft peripherals and they have been working perfectly fine but after the upgrade to Lion it seems that these utilities are now useless. You can still choose settings like in SL, but they don't have any effect at all. For example, the back/forward buttons on my mouse no longer work. Has anyone found a Lion compatible version for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. Scrolling using the scroll wheel used to be smooth in SL however, this does not seem to be the case with Lion, scrolling on the scroll wheel is done in increments with no smoothing - it's jumpy. Thank you to anyone who could also help me with this issue

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