Mighty mouse randomly goes back a page in Safari???

So I have a 2 month old iMac which came with the very sleek and sexy new mighty mouse. As comfortable as it is, I want to throw out a window. It randomly goes back a page on me all the time (even once as I was writing this very topic!!) as if i had right-clicked and chosen back. But I didn't, I swear it! No menu ever shows, and I can never ever repeat it on purpose. Doesn't seem to happen in Firefox for some reason but I don't use it often and again, can't make the issue occur. I have lost so much written text and time to this and am about to go back to the previous magic mouse. I cannot figure out why this keeps happening. Also finding the mouse absurdly sensitive in general no matter how the settings are configured.
Is this happening to anyone else?? Any ideas why?? Thanks.
(sorry if this should be posted elsewhere but there's no section for accessories as far as I could see)

It's been 24 hours since I fixed the disk permissions and reset safari with no repeat incidents (fingers crossed)! Thanks so much! Seems so obvious but I was convinced it was the mouse itself. Thanks again

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