One buttom wireless mouse makes astounding leaps

Anyone elso had/resolved a problem with the original one button wireless mouse from Apple, where sometimes the cursor leaps, in a single bound, to either the top left or bottom right corner of the screen?
This happens just every so often (maybe five times a day), in the middle of 'normal' mouse operation. Otherwise the wee sleekit, couring, timorous beastie behaves like a good little mouse.
The mouse in qustion has just celebrated its 14th month of mouseness.

Well, in my case it happened much more often, but the surface of the table was the apparent cause for my erratic mouse-jumping. I "fixed" it by taping a piece of standard, non-glossy A4 to the tabletop as a mousing surface.
Hope it helps!
Cheers,
B.

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