Mighty Mouse side button gives 'new mail' sound

I have recently noticed a strange phenomenon with the mighty mouse on my iMac :-
Whenever I squeeze the side buttons in either Mail or Adobe Reader it gives the (submarine) 'new mail' sound. Other applications are fine. I am using Steermouse, and the side buttons are configured to give the 'page back' command in my browser, which works correctly. But I'm sure that the strange sound problem didn't used to occur.
Any ideas what's going on ?
Cheers,
Chris.

It's because there is nothing to go back to, so it plays the "alert/error" sound.
Just like it would if you were to hit the shortcut key....

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