Mighty mouse - tracking sluggish w/ new MacPro

Set up a new MacPro w/ AirPort and BT with the Apple BT KB and Mighty Mouse. Arrived with dead batteries. With fresh batteries in my office mouse tracked fine. At new location, tracking now unusable. MacPro doesn't seem to support ext antenna for AP or BT, so is there any possible remedy for this poor signal/tracking?
MacPro 2x2.6GHz, 4GB ram, Radeon X1900, 2x500GB SATA HD. MacOS X 10.4.8.
Thanks

Dear poor friend,
I am facing the same very problem here. It started last monday when I updated the OS and the system requested to restart. I restarted it and then Voala!!! My Magic mouse stopped tracking. Like you I can scroll, click, perform some gestures... but thats all.
I still have 8 months of warranty and as I discussed with "Apple Care Specialist" I should reinstall the Mac OS X overlapping the current system. I did that and nothing..... Then he recomnended me to take my mac to a service center.
I live in Brazil and here the Service Center system is always down. I tried to take my MacPro there three times (iPlace in Shopping Ibirapuera) and I always heard that the system was down and they didnt even try to check it.
So I called the Apple Care Again, this time the Super Advanced Specialist told me to FORMAT my disk and reinstall the system once more.... I had no option and I lost everything in this process....
My mouse worked for few minutes and then..... Ta daaaa!!!... it stopped again...
Then this super Advanced Specialist said that this problem might be related to the firmware and only Service Center can give a look...
That means... DEAD END for me...
I was an apple maniac fanboy until today... I cannot accept that my mouse is not working...
APPLE, please, release a patch to fix this problem to occur again. Fix my Mac without the need to bring it to a Service Center.!!!
Best Regards,
Disappointed client.

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