Mouse button activation of Spaces stops working requiring reboot to restore

I am using a Kensington Expert Mouse with 4 buttons. I have the upper right mouse button mapped to "Button 4". I have Spaces configured to be activated by Button 4.
Everything works great. I love it. However, periodically it just stops working - meaning I hit the mouse button and nothing happens. I can still hit F8 to get Spaces - just no mouse button.
I have checked both the configuration of the mouse and of Spaces in preferences to make sure nothing has changed. It is all setup the same way. It just doesn't work.
BUT ... if I reboot, the functionality comes back.
I can't tell is this is part of the problem but I do put the laptop to sleep frequently and it may be that this functionality doesn't come back after a sleep. I haven't paid close attention.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
-Steve

I am also experiencing this problem. For me, the Dock seems to crash every once in awhile and then the mouse binding for Spaces no longer works. When this happens, the OS still recognizes me pushing that mouse button so I don't think it's a mouse problem. F8 works while the mouse button won't work.
This is what I saw in my logs last time it happened:
Dec 18 00:44:09 mdma ReportCrash[3762]: Formulating crash report for
process Dock[96]
Dec 18 00:44:09 mdma com.apple.launchd[82]
([0x0-0x9009].com.apple.dock[96]): Exited abnormally: Segmentation
fault
Dec 18 00:44:12 mdma ReportCrash[3762]: Saved crashreport to
/Users/mike/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Dock2007-12-18-004407mdma.crash
using uid: 501 gid: 20, euid: 501 egid: 20

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