Mighty Mouse only scrolls down and to side

It was working fine, then I was told to reboot after some webobjects update or something like that. Now it won't scroll up. It's clicking and not gummed up, and it was working seconds before the reboot. Anyone run into anything similar? I dunno if I have a mouse driver cdrom for it, as I got it for Xmas and tossed all packaging and it worked right off the bat in my iBook so... any suggestions? I can hunt down the packaging maybe, or if they have drivers online, maybe the driver just got pooched a little. If anything, this will help the next person who has this problem when I do find a solution.

I just figured it out. There was some gunk inside there. It's weird because it was working before the update reboot. Must have just been too much and a coincidence. I found the gunk when I accidentally pushed down while scrolling up and it forced some of it out. It's work now. That's good info to remember in the future since I still can't find my driver CD. Thanks!

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