Mouse Invisible on Wake-up

It only started happening recently, when I set my macbook pro (which I use as a desktop, w/ monitor and bluetooth mouse and keyboard) to go to sleep after after a long time of inactivity:
When I wake my computer up from sleep or just the screensaver my mouse pointer is invisible. I can move it to my hot corners and they react properly, and I can move it over my dock and the icons grow, I can click on them, I can do everything, but the pointer isn't on the screen. When I open an application, or a folder, or a document, the pointer re-appears. I can't figure out why but it happens every time.
I'm running 10.5.5, I always update right away, and I'm not running any strange software.
I could probably set it to not go to sleep again and it would probably fix it, but I don't think I should have to.

Have you tried posting in the Bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse Forums?

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