Mouse 'drift' in windows

I am sure I am not alone in this but when pressing a click in windows bootcamp the mouse kind of drifts up wards, you have to be very very specific with it.
Is there any adjustments that can be made to prevent this?
I have windows XP

You should probably post this question in the Boot Camp forum
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237

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