Middle Mouse Click Doesn't Scroll

I haven't installed anything lately, but all of a sudden my middle click mouse button (when I click it down) doesn't work. Before when I click it down, the little arrow thing would pop up and I would be able to scroll up and down if I move my mouse up and down. What is wrong? I didn't find anything in the System Preferences thing and I tried to install their software today, but to no avail. I can still scroll if I turn the wheel, but I want the middle click scroll to work again. So does anyone know how to fix this issue and restore the little up and down arrow thing? Thanks in advance. Note: Mouse is a Logitech Wheel Mouse M/N: M-BJ58
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6) 2.0 GHz

maybe someone else out there who has the mouse can shed some light on if theirs is working.
id try repairing permissions, if you haven't, doubt it could be that, but it never hurts. other than that, I would wait doing anything like an archive/install or reverting firmware till someone else can verify that it wasn't just broken by an update.

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Last edited by daedalusman (2009-07-26 05:06:48)

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Does this mouse work with other OS/PC ?
After a simple reboot or pacman -Syu, do you backup to roll back ? Can you mention which packages/files were updated?
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[2009-07-22 11:21] starting full system upgrade
[2009-07-22 11:23] upgraded python (2.6.2-4 -> 2.6.2-5)
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