Mighty Mouse + Two-Finger Back Swipe = Wheel of Death

I'm a data-mining tech and I'm going to lose my job soon cause this new Mighty Mouse that I thought would be great and even more efficient for Safari surfing has turned into a disaster to use. It's not every time but often, when I use the two-finger "back" gesture, Safari ties up and eventually greets me with the beach ball of death. I think I'm going to have to plug my wired apple mouse back in to be able to work again. I have the special update for this new mouse installed and have even completely reset Safari. Any ideas all? Thx.

Hello s:
There are only a couple of things I can think of to try (I do not have the new mouse, so I cannot experiment).
1. Trash a preference file and restart (com.apple.bluetooth.plist).
2. Reset Safari.
Barry

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