Mighty Mouse lost it's mind

Like I have done several times in the past, I cleaned the scroll ball of my mighty mouse after experiencing the problem of being unable to scroll up. After unplugging it I simply turned it over and rolled the ball on a clean sheet of paper to get rid of any built up dirt. Quite a bit of dirt came out and when I plugged the mouse back in the scroll ball worked as good as new. Except now I had a new problem. I was unable to left or right click, just the third click worked; ie: using the scroll ball click. Since I had the third click set to open the Dashboard, that's all I could do when I tried to click anything with the mouse. Luckily I have another mouse that I was able to use to go into System Preferences and shut off the third click for the mighty mouse. I then changed the settings for the left & right click and then put them back to original to see if it would help, but it didn't.
Now the bizarre part. After playing around with it a little more I noticed the following behaviors. The left click works only on certain objects. For example, I am able to click on almost anything in the Finder; into a window, on a folder or file, on the dock to open an app, the desktop to un-select a previously selected item. I am able to click on the resize control and resize a window, but I can't click on the title bar of a window to move it. I can select things from the left side of the menu bar, like "File" or "Edit", but not from the right side, like spotlight or the volume control. In Safari I can click on links to open up in a new tab but I can't click on the tab to see the page. Also in Safari, or any other application, I can't click on any of the menus. If I am in another application like Safari or TextEdit I can click on a Finder window to make it active but can't click back to the Safari or TextEdit window I just left to make it active again. As for the right click the only thing that seems to work, and only in the Finder, is if I select a file or folder and then right click on it I can edit it's name. I can't get the contextual menus to work even if I use the control key on the keyboard and use a left click. I can't click on buttons in dialog boxes.
I have never seen anything like this before. I would expect it to stop working but not to work on some things and not on others. This thing was working fine just before I cleaned it. It is just baffling and hope that someone can help me out. The one thing I did try was to zap the PRAM, but it did not work.

Since my mouse is out of warranty I decided to open it up and try and figure out the problem. As it turns out my original attempt to clean the mouse basically ruined it. When I rolled the scroll ball over a piece of paper I did it too vigorously. When I opened the mouse and disassembled the scroll ball I found that there was a small gasket under the ball which had a hole in it. Directly under the ball is a small metal tab which I believe is the switch for the scroll ball button. My cleaning attempt pushed the metal tab through the gasket and shorted out the switch, which led to the strange behavior I mentioned in my first post.
Here are some pictures of the damage.
I tried to repair the gasket with some silicone caulk, but even after drying for a couple of days the silicone was too gummy to work well. It made the scroll ball almost impossible to move. The scroll ball button would not work either. At least the left and right click started working again.
I do really miss the scroll ball functionality. It is amazing how used to something you get. I know many people had a lot of complaints with the mighty mouse, but I am not one of them considering that the mouse was original with my almost four year old computer I can't complain too much. It worked well for all that time. I am now wondering whether to buy a new mighty mouse or go for the magic mouse, or maybe even something else if anyone has any suggestions.
So the lesson learned here is, not to be too aggressive with cleaning this mouse. Hopefully this will save someone else the same trouble.
Again, thanks for all the help!!

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