MM losing preferences

Hey all, not a huge deal overall but this seems to be happening more often than ever. Have got the mighty mouse scroll ball 'click' set for Expose, and side buttons for 'Dashboard' . Both preferences seem to be reset back to default every now and again, I cannot pinpoint my previous actions to cause this but can confirm this does not occur if I do a restart. I do undertake the usual repair permissions but this has only begun a few months ago and has probably occured 4-6 times. Setting the prefs within preferences will probably keep me going again for the next few weeks but then will be at the same default point. Btw, nothing else seems to be affected. What's the next step?
Cheers All

Hi argento,
You can try a simple test. create another account, log into that account and see if mouse does the same thing. Since it seems sporadic, it may be hard to catch, but if the mouse does NOT exhibit same issues, then it might be safe to assume a corrupt mouse plist which is located here: User > Library > Preferences... com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist is the name of file. You can always drag the file to desktop, your Mac will generate a new one and you can see if that helps. Then just trash the plist file or drag back into preferences...
Good luck, Rick
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