Mouse goes to upper left corner

I've noticed both on my personal computer (15" Macbook pro 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo) both with Mac OS X 10.5.2 and my work computer (Powermac 1.8 GHz Dual) that when I wake it up from a time of idleness the mouse cursor goes to the upper left corner.
What makes it disturbin is that I have expose as a hot corner on the upper left.
Is it a bug or something I can fix by myself??

Start with a PRAM zap:
1. Hold down cmndopt+RP and start up.
2. Hold the keys for 3 "bongs", and release.
If that does not help, restart with the Restore Disk, and run the Archive & Install. This is really easy, and very much not harmful or serious. It works quite well. When you get to the screen that lets you select the drive to A&I, hit the "options" button, and make certain "A&I is selected AND "save settings" (or something like that) is checked. Then complete the job, and run Software update after. I might suggest repairing permissions after the A&I, and again after the updates.
You might also want to add Disk Warrior from Alsoft to your arsenal.

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