Microsoft standard optical wireless mouse freezes when Mac sleeps

When G4 sleeps for a few minutes or more the Microsoft standard optical mouse is frozen on wake up. Takes about a literal minute to un-freeze. Once unfrozen mouse behaves normally. This problem began about a month ago perhaps about six weeks ago.
No amount of clicking or keyboard manipulation helps. Unplugging and re connecting the transmitter from it's USB port is sometimes successful at unfreezing but not always. Rarely the Mac is totally frozen and cannot even be power cycled. Only unplugging or turning off the power at the surge protector breaks the freeze. I have tried totally uninstalling the mouse and re-installing without benefit. I have reset power management and cleared p-ram, run disk warrior and disk utility.. no impact on the problem.
Thank-you for any help.

Hi, Robert -
A couple of issues may pertain.
• Hardware
I use MS Intellimouse Explorer mouses with my G4s - I like the extra buttons and the 'feel' of the mouse. I had problems initially - after a few months of use the mouse, and sometimes the keyboard, would freeze (cease working) - sometimes unplugging and replugging would fix it, sometimes a reboot was necessary. Finally the keyboard died completely.
After replacing the keyboard I came across Apple KBase Article #58649 which led me to believe that the power requirements from the mouse might be overloading the keyboard. I reconfigured my USB setup so that the keyboard was connected directly to the Mac and the mouse to a port in the powered hub in my monitor. I have not had that problem since then (several years).
• Software
I don't know about the OSX version of MS's mouse software, but the OS 9 version of it is lacking somewhat, and, in my experience, is not reliable. I use USB Overdrive instead of MS's mouse software - it's very stable and offers more features and controls than the MS software does. There is a version of it available for OSX.

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