Mouse and 30" Monitor

Is there a way to make my Mighty Mouse more sensitive? I've got a 30" monitor and I'd like to move my hand as little as possible. I've got the Tracking setting in Preferences set as fast as possible but its still a trek from one corner to the other. Is there a further adjustment?
Thanks!
-=Tim=-

You could also try MouseZoom, a free preference pane:
"MouseZoom is a prefpane which speeds up your mouse cursor movement in Mac OS X. As of version 2.0, the speed is set "live" without having to log out before it takes effect. To do this, MouseZoom uses the same method as Apple's mouse panel."
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9091
I use it with my 24" Dell and it works great; if you're doing delicate work, however, you'd have to throttle it back, because the highest setting is called "crazy fast".....personally, I use "wild fast"..

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I've seen quite a few posts in this regard with non-Apple mice and keyboard.
Well, the mouse and keyboard are quite old -- it could be that they're having a problem dealing with identifying themselves on the USB bus during sleep, or aren't identifying themselves fast enough at wake time. I'll just have to replace them I guess.
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Context.
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