Mouse pointer arrow is frozen

My mouse arrow is frozen! Any suggestions?

My mouse cursor is frozen, too. It's probably a very different situation from yours, but I'm replying here since yours is a recent post and someone is likely to see it. If not, I'll start a new post.
A long story, but probably relevant:
My Mac is a G4 that has inherited the hard disks from a succession of older Macs that it replaced. So now, having just installed OS 10.5.8 on a disk that had no OS on it, I have 10.5.8 and 10.4.11, each on its own disk, and 10.3 Panther plus OS 9 both on the same disc, plus a couple of other discs with nothing on them, all in the same box. That might seem like asking for trouble, but another Mac whiz on this forum tells me it should be okay.
My problem for some time has been that Protools (made by Digidesign, owned by Avid) won't load, since it complains that the "Digidesign hardware is in use by another application (-1133)". After much gnashing of teeth I finally experienced the dim light bulb of just looking up the <expletive deleted> error in google, and Lo and behold, it's simply that my version of Protools is not compatible with 10.4 or 10.5.
Okay, so back to 10.3, but...
Now when I boot 10.3 (via that StartUp choice in System Preferences), I have the frozen mouse cursor in the upper left corner of the screen just like you.
Consider:
- Now that I recall, it was THIS environment, 10.3, where Protools was always working, despite the fact that OS 9 already resided on the same disk, so having OS 9 there is not the problem.
- The mouse and keyboard were working just fine minutes earlier in 10.4.11 and 10.5.8 as I went back and forth between them trying to uninstall Protools for a clean install of it afterwards. So the mouse and keyboard themselves are probably not the problem.
- The mouse in question is a new 'Mighty Mouse' that arrived with a G5 I just bought. It's an optical mouse, and the light that shone on the bottom of it earlier (with 10.4 and 10.5) shines no more.
- Other mice, that had been working shortly before I switched to the new Mighty Mouse to try it out, now no longer work in this new 10.3 boot. So it can't be simply that 10.3 is not compatible with the Mighty Mouse.
- The keyboard apparently doesn't work either, but I can't be sure since I can't open a doc or window to try to type anything.
- Now I'm STUCK, since with no input devices I can't tell the Mac to boot in 10.4.11 or 10.5.8.
- I already tried the strategem of holding the Shift key down while I re-boot. It didn't work, but then maybe that's because the keyboard stopped working.
- And No, nothing is unplugged!
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