Mouse tracking

OK, I have finally had a chance to play around with my newly purchases iMac 24" yesterday! So far so good, and as a now ex Windows users I am very impressed with the OS However, I have one little niggle, and if there's a solution I would love to see it.
I have adjusted to mouse tracking speed to around 90% so that I can quickly cover the 24 inches of my screen, but I am getting a little frustrated by the fact that when I slow my hand movement down slightly (for instance, to click on a small object, or to highlight text etc.) the mouse slows down to a crawl. I am assuming that this is a deliberate feature of OSX to increase accuracy, but it is slowing me down. Is there any way to turn this "feature" off?

A lot of people have been complaining about the acceleration curve algorithm used in the Intel Macs. You may have some success with an alternative driver such as http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13443
USB Overdrive which has many more options than Apples's mouse driver.
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