Mighty Mouse Won't Click?

I recently upgraded my mouse to the Mighty Mouse (wired) and have been enjoying it. However, once last week, and again just now, the mouse pretty much flakes out, and I can't click on anything. I can use it for switching applications via Expose, but once I left click on something, that document, window, application goes grey and I can't click on anything. I've ended up force quitting my aps and hard restarting. I have to use the keyboard to force quit, if I try to click on the quit button, the force quit grays out too.
I've read some of the posts about Mighty Mice (Mouses? Meece?) freaking out and expose toggling on and off, but I didn't read anything about them ceasing to work like this. Anyone else out there had this issue?
Cheers,
Scott
G5 Dual 2.5Ghz, 5GB RAM   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Ah! Sorry, I panicked and forgot to take the batteries out and plug them back in.
That solved the problem.
Thank you.

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