Mighty Mouse Refuses to Pair

I've searched these boards and all over the internet and still have not been able to resolve my problem.
I can't get my mighty mouse to pair with my computer! When I go to set up bluetooth device, it shows up in the list and i select it and hit continue. It attempts to pair but then always times out saying the pairing attempt was unsuccessful.
I have rebooted. I have erased com.apple.Bluetooth.plist. I have all the updates installed.
Help please.

I am on a Power Pc imac with OS 10.5.8, and what I did to fix the trouble with the pairing of the mouse, is installing the Mighty Mouse update software, after the 3rd. time I did it, it work. I do not know if this has some thing to do, my guess is that it has but in 3rd try I made sure that the mouse was on and douring restart I gave a feaw click and it worked !

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