OSX suddenly unclickable

OSX suddenly becomes unclickable at random times. Today it happened twice, forcing me to pull the plug. This is 10.4.8 on a 1.67 Aluminum PowerBook.
Everything will be normal when suddenly my Bluetooth mouse is unable to click with either button. It moves around normally but no clicking. I try the clicker built-in to my PB but that won't work either. I have no choice but to hold down the button and reboot.
After rebooting, everything works fine until next time. Today it happened twice. One time the keyboard had no response in addition to the mouse clicker, so that may help isolate the cause.
This has been happening for about 4 weeks, with maybe 8 crashes in that time. It seems to be getting worse. This is making me crazy since I lose all my work when it crashes.
Any suggestions?

Sounds like something's corrupt with the Bluetooth settings/application. I don't have any of those, but if you have a standard USB mouse, you might use it and see if the problem persists. If not, then you should be able to track down the Bluetooth corruption problem. If so, then probably something with the mouse/keyboard settings. BTW, you might try another admin user account and see if occurs with the Bluetooth mouse. Good hunting.

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