Mouse buttons 7 & 8 missing.

I've been using a [Logitech MX518|http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/gaming/pcgaming/micekeyboards/devices/187&cl=us,en] quite happily for quite some time, however, (after the recent 10.5.2 patch) my mouse buttons (#7 & #8) have been "reassigned" to their original intent... increasing and decreasing mouse sensitivity. Mind you, Logitech has horrible support for the mac (in the case of the 518, none) and thus I've been employing third-party drivers such as [USB Overdrive|http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/Information.html] to fully map all the buttons on the mouse. I used to be able to use those buttons, but now there are no mouse events detected from them by USB Overdrive.
Undaunted, I installed the two other competitor drivers out there, [SteerMouse|http://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse> and [ControllerMate|http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate>... both of which were also unable to receive any mouse events from my missing buttons.
It is my belief that Apple added "support" for mice like this in 10.5.2 and such support is found somewhere in the kernel, but I can't stress how much this is a bad thing. My MX518 is now a 6 button mouse, and whereas I used to use every button routinely in programs from Photoshop to World of Warcraft, that functionality is now missing.
Help. (or, Apple if you're reading this, please fix it)

This is a Leopard user to user forum. If you use a product or program designed to work with Leopard or even MacOS then you might get some help with set up or troubleshooting. It is not a forum for advising Apple of anything. They don't officially monitor this forum for complaints.
If you are looking to haxie the OS then you should be looking at the web sites for companies that do this. Logitech specifically shows that they don't support this product for the Mac. It's not supposed to work at all. The fact that some of the features work is just a fluke.
USB Overdrive is probably your best bet. If the Leopard architecture allows buttons 7 and 8 or more than 16 buttons, they may take the time to update their program and add a feature for you and other users who they supported in the past. Hopefully, they get paid for their efforts in some way... They don't make any money in the price of the mouse. Just be aware that the method they use to enable a feature could be disabled by another system update in the future. That's the nature of Haxies.
Now if I could just get my old 12" Calcomp ADB drawing tablet with the Griffin ADB to USB adapter to work like I want I'd be very happy. Griffin dropped support for their adapter when Tiger came out. I decided that I wanted the benefits of Tiger, so I'm not embarrassed that I have very expensive unsupported hardware that doesn't work (at all).
Your perspective is short-ranged at best. Every version of MacOS has the potential to completely change your working applications and hardware products. Leopard is not 10.4.12. It is a new operating system (that you have to buy and install) that's very similar to earlier versions. Some companies don't want to update their products because they don't see any benefit for them (HP for example). The product, and sometimes the company gets forgotten. Vote with your dollar.

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