Mouse Craziness?

I have a 2009 13.3" MacBook Pro (not the latest model, one back), 2.4GHz, running the latest 10.6.x as of today. My mouse has flaked out on me a few times in the last few months. It acts as if one of my fingers is still on the trackpad, and it's trying to do multitouch. At the same time, it doesn't move well at all. 50 strokes to make it from one side of the screen to the other. A reboot has fixed it both times, but I was wondering if this is a known issue? A google search for "MacBook Pro Mouse Problems" only yields about a gazillion hits, too much to go through.
Thanks!

Well, it is not batteries.
Manual wired Apple Mouse used for over an hour last night and again for about 45 minutes tonight = no trouble
I put new batteries in the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 2. Also tossed the Microsoft software and installed fresh copy of USB Overdrive.
removed my manual mouse, activated the USB overdrive,hooked up the Microsoft Mouse.
Started doing some email. suddenly,in middle of a reply, the PROBLEM occurred again; Could not do anything in Eudora. Mouse did not respond other than let me use top level menu to quit.
When I went to relaunch the application, the same weirdness; clicking on dock icon no longer launched the application but, instead, opened the application's folder.Clicking on the application icon in its folder launched the application but the mouse was still unresponsive..
I removed the Microsoft Mouse,plugged in the manual wired one button Apple mouse but the problem did not resolve.
I rebooted.
Again, problem is resolved. Using the manual mouse.
Question: could it be my new keyboard ? I had the mice plugged into the keyboard. Maybe I should plug mouse into a separate USB Hub? ( Although the Microsoft Mouse was plugged into the separate hub when the problem began.
Very puzzled.
Is my five year old iMac falling apart?
Could it be the wireless mouse falling apart?
Ideas anyone?
Flat panel 15 iMac and MacBook 2 Gig Intel processor Mac OS X (10.4.8) MacBook has 2 Gig RAM, iMac has 1 Gig RAM

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