My mouse is frozen and turning the computer on an off did not reset it. How do I unfreeze the computer?

The mouse does not move the cursor. Resetting the computer did nothing. I had connected a Seagate Backup drive to the computer prior to this happening. How do I unfreeze the computer?

Disconnect that drive.
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
If that doesn't help Reinstall the OS.

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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. If you weren't ever able to watch your rental movie, you can report this to the iTunes Store:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1933
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