OSX 10.8.2 - Mouse erratic recovery from sleep

New Pro Retina, OS 10.8.2 (ML), MS Mobile Mouse 6000
I've searched for answers to this fairly exhaustively, and while I've found that a LOT of people seem to be having issues with Mountain Lion's sleep mode and peripherals, I haven't yet found out why or gotten a good answer to my problem. Hoping someone out there can help me lock this down, maybe let me know if this is in the queue to get resolved via a patch.
PROBLEM
I have an MS mobile mouse 6000 (wireless), and I'm having sporadic problems with my mouse when my computer goes to sleep (forced, closed, etc.). Essentially the mouse will sometimes still be active, in other times inactive and unavailable. What I mean by that is that when I move it it doesn't recover the laptop, and when I recover the laptop (by pressing a button or the touchpad) the mouse isn't available/linked.
The bigger issue than this is what happens when I remove the USB dongle to reinitialize it. About 50% of the time the laptop will actually crash, the other 50% of the time it'll be fine and I can just plug it in and keep working. I know if it's going to work or not by whether the scrollbars blink when I do it... if they don't I'm hosed, since in about 2 seconds it's going to crash (there's always a slight lag between pulling it out and the crash).
SOLUTION (attempts)
I've reinstalled the driver for the mouse (and used no driver) multiple times... I don't think it's the driver, but figured I'd give it a shot, no luck. I've tried playing with the mouse settings to force it to "wake up" to the mouse, but still no luck, and that wouldn't be a solution anyway since I can't do that every time I wake up the laptop.
I've used multiple versions of the same mouse (yes, I have lots of these mice), but no luck... they all exhibit the exact same issues. Fiddling with the mouse itself is pointless... tried anyway, but it's clearly a software issue.
I'm kind of at my wits end on this. It's clear there's a problem with Mountain Lion's power management and recovery, specifically how it deals with peripheral ports. Does ANYONE know more about this? Has the guy responsible been fired? Is a fix in the works?
Thanks,
Rick

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