Mouse Acceleration settings lost on restart or shutdown

Every time I restart (or shutdown -r via terminal) my powermac it loses it's mouse settings. Strange, because only the mouse speed setting is lost. The setting is set to max when I login after a restart (I never shut down, it's my database, web and file server too). I did a pram zap serveral times but that didn't work (or maybe the mouse setting is not stored in pram ) but, does someone know why this thing happens? Or how to fix it?

Sorry, for late raction: I didn't get any mail from the support discussions... Usual I do, but that seems to be disabeld? Well, anyway my mac: Power Mac G4 Single 400Mhz Gigabit ethernet graphite (Model: M5183 printed on the top of the connectivity area), 1.38GB ram, 2x 80 gig hd OS X 10.4.4, radeon 9800 pro. I don't know it's age but I bought it 2nd handed from a guy who had os9 on it.
Mouse: Logitech Optical mouse (as it says on the bottem, usual 3-button, scroll, usb wired) with the latest logitech control center. The speed if very strange: if I put the slider to max it won't even get the speed it gets after a reboot.
And the terminal shutdown -r thingy: I do that via my cell phone / SSH. My phone (nokia 3650) has no VNC support via external app. so I can't do ssh, open a vnc server connect to the vnc server and reboot it the apple way.
Not a big problem (usual uptime 9 weeks or more), but a stange one.

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Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (280): 200
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Last edited by ch1p (2013-08-13 09:34:34)

ch1p wrote:two different "Logitech USB Receiver" devices
See thread.
Haven't used it in a while, but my xorg.conf contained:
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# http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6676035
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# Posted at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7265410.html#7265410
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