Oversensitive magic mouse

I recently purchased a magic mouse to work with my iMac running 10.5.8 (I tried updating to Snow Leopard a few months back but that caused other problems so I reverted back to Leopard). Initially I thought it was geat, no cord and no trackball to get gummed up. However I'm very frustrated with the extreme sensitivity. Clicking works fine and tracking works fine but the scroll has a mind of its own. I will have an application open and be attempting to edit the contents. The mouse will scroll right, left, up and down essentially on its own. I find no adjustment for the scroll feature in the mouse preferences, bad design. I have read other posts about sensitivity issues but they are all related to zoom in and out. I don't have a zoom problem.
Is the sensitivity issue being addressed?
Just for reference my mouse preferences are set as follows:
Tracking & scrolling: medium setting
Double click: toward the fast end
One FInger:
     Secondary click "on" and set to "right"
     Scroll: "on"
     Screen zoon: "off"
Two fingers
     Swipe left/right to navigate: "on"
John

Pollock5,
I solved the problem in much the same way but without any destruction. I took my magic mouse to my local Apple store and that's where I basically found out that mouse is apparently trying to emulate a smarphone/tablet interface (i.e. swipe and tap). Nowhere in the "literature" accompanying the smart mouse does it clearly identify that the forward left corner is a right click, the forward right corner a left click, and the rest a tracking swipe area. Unfortunately those areas are not well defined in any way (e.g. groves in the top of the mouse or painted lines, etc.) so it's all by "touch". When using the mouse I concentrate on the screen, not exactly where my finger is on the mouse, so apparently my finger was "wandering" over two areas of the mouse simultaneously, thus causing click and swipe operations together. Not at all what I want in a mouse.
My solution? I took the smart mouse back to the Apple store and exchanged it for a wired mouse with trackball. I don't like that there is no good way to thoroughly clean the tack ball once it get crudded up, but at least it is not over sensitive.
Bottom line, I answered my own question.
John

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EDIT (smc reset
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Note: The LED on the MagSafe power adapter may change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC.)
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