Mouse cursor "Sticks" or disappears momentarily, what gives?!

Have you guys had a cursor stick and or disappear for a second to a few seconds? is this an issue due to way to many apps being opened, however it happens to me even with a single app open...what could possibly remedy this?

Uncheck "Ignore accidental trackpad input" does not solve this problem. Others have posted about trying all sorts of combinations under keyboard and mouse settings. This is an on-going, unresolved issue for many of us. This is the first thing I noticed on my Macbook after getting it yesterday (9/25).
Have not read or heard about any fix for this.
I'll keep looking, reading and waiting for a solution.
Tom
G4 Cube 450/IBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)
G4 Cube 450/IBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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The mouse cursor brush shape disappear after 120px.

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Make sense, I upgraded the drivers for the GPU, and restored those other setting back how they were before and the problem is fixed.
Of course GeForce software comes with some crap that get install in my machine, and add a bunch of icon and apps in the browser search bar, I already uninstalled, I guess Nvidia need to make some money, poor guys.
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Mouse cursor sticking in Safari?

I've noticed this weird thing where the cursor sometimes gets stuck while I'm posting on forums like this one. It happens when the text entry box is highlighted, like the one I'm typing in right now. It's not the trackpad, I don't think, because it works fine in any other situation. but I'm sitting here moving the cursor back and forth, and it sticks for a second or two while I'm doing it.
Anyone else have this happen?

Yea it seems a lot of people are having this problem. It probably is not just in Safari for you, it is just that you are noticing it now. It happens for me sporadically, and probably for you as well.
Hope something can be done about this...more and more people are coming out with the same problem.

Brand New Retina Macbook Pro - Mouse Cursor Disappears

Just bought this new MBP Retain, 13" with the 2.6ghz processor and have not installed much on it. I think the only program I've installed is Spotify.
Aside from that, I'm using it as is, out of the box. No external mouse, keyboard, or any other application aside from an equally new iPhone 5S.
I've had this issue 3 times within the 3 days of ownership, where the mouse cursor will completely disappear from the sceen and it doesn't come back. The computer still functions and I can still do a few things like type (if I'm inside a textbox already, I think), as well as change the volume, brightness and activate the Power button (however, I can't select anything).
I have to do a hard reset to get it back.
This is pretty frustrating for a brand new product. I don't think it's linked to any external factors as nothing additional has been added.

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My mouse cursor disappears behind the picture I'm working with!

While I was working on a picture in Photoshop, my mouse cursor disappeared. No crosshairs (I've already tried turning the caps lock on and off). It was just gone. I moved my mouse around and it appears whenever I choose a new tool or when I'm working with the layers or when I use something from the drop down bar, the mouse is there when I don't have anything open in Photoshop--just when I have the program open--but whenever I start working on a picture or a blank canvas it disappears, like it's going underneath the canvas (I found I can still draw and erase on the canvas, I just can't tell where since the cursor is gone). This is frustrating because I use Photoshop to create my digital artwork and my drawing pad is small, so I need to know where my cursor is in order to draw accurately.
Things I've done to resolve the problem thus far: I've downloaded the current Adobe update, I've tried adjusting my advanced properties settings on my computer, I've tried readjusting my cursor settings in my preferences, I've tried resetting my presets--thinking I might have miss clicked a combination of keys to make it happen--I've also tried closing out and going back into Photoshop, even turned my computer off, let it sit, and then turned it back on. But my mouse cursor continues to disappear underneath the canvas.
I plan on uninstalling and then reinstalling my Photoshop software--I hope that works. Otherwise, if that doesn't, does anyone know how to fix this issue?

Okay, so I figured this out how to resolve this issue a few days after posting my question. If you have the Nezumi Pro plugin for your Photoshop there is an option in the Nezumi settings to hide your cursor which can be easily activated by simply miss clicking F6. Once I figured this out and changed my cursor settings back to normal, my mouse reappeared.

Loading mulitple Adobe Flash web pages makes mouse cursor disappear

I have a 2011 Mac Mini with OSX 10.7 Lion Server
Regardless of the Browser used - if I load mulitple Adobe Flash based Flickr photo slide show web pages, after 15 seconds my Mouse Cursor completely disappears and makes navigating the mac rather impossible.
Its really buggy and forces me to click or "right click" (Option Click) randomly on the Desktop with the hope that I might briefly see the cursor return so I can close the browsers.
Does not matter if i use Safari, Firefox or Chrome.
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http://www.flickr.com/groups/warbirds/pool/with/8032123616/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/show/
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And withing 10 seconds on my mac mini - NO Curser.
Even if I try to move the mouse outside the Browser display area - to where i clairvoyantly might consider the cursor should be over the Desktop.
Typically results in the invisible cursor accidently creating numerous new folders on the desktop, as I frantically attempt to make the cursor re-appear.
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My local Apple Genius Bar support person suggested I back up my data and perform "OSX Recovery"
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
Stating its possble that my Adobe Flash was installed wrong.
I have the latest updates
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Flash Version 11.4.402.265

Update.
This solved the problem
My local Apple Genius Bar support person suggested this sequence and it fixed my disappearing cursor!
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
3) Perform the Apple Software update
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Mouse cursor disappearing

I am using Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse and when I am browsing around on the internet my cursor seems to disappear occasionally if i move it into the toolbars... (back, forward, stop, address etc..) i can still click on things and stuff but i can't see the cursor?
Any ideas?

Yes I understand, It is almost as if the pointer
slips under the buttons on the left of the toolbar,
where the back & forward buttons are, for me it is
has also been on the page as I approach the toolbar.
I have no doubt it is the same sort of thing, as a
matter of fact I had it happen yesterday on an AOL
page, which I just tested on W3C....
I encountered precisely this "arrow cursor disappears" or "mouse cursor disappears" in Safari uptodate on MacBook 2GHz w 1GB RAM. But I observed it on only a single page of a large site (www.philly.com).
Thus I assume it is the coding of that page and Safari's picky rendering of W3C standards... and a W3C Validator check of that page's URL produced hundreds of errors in its coding, which I forwarded to the offending site's webmaster.
Failed validation, 118
Errors, clearly validated poorly using the beta v. of W3C.
Mark up Validator.
When you run into the problem check the site.
The regular W3C
Markup Validation Service gave this
->:Result: Failed validation,
57 errors.
I noticed that I didn't have the disappearing curser
tonight when I visited the same AOL page in
Del.ici.cous, using Safari Webkit
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SwUpdter not sure if that made any difference, which
is recommended.
Eme mentioned having just installed some software updates but didn't say what happened afterwards. In my case it only began to appear AFTER I installed "Security Update 2007-005 (Universal)" (1.1) and "Security Update (QuickTime 7.1.6)" (1.0).
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dual xeon
64 gig ram
quadro 5000 (driving two 30 inch dell monitors of different models One DVI-D and the other Display Port)
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Cliff

Your answer is in this part of your specs:
> (driving two 30 inch dell monitors)
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