Randomly jumpy mighty mouse (bt) pointer and trackpad too (once only)

Gents,
I have recently noted that, sometimes (randomly and rarely for the time being), the pointer of my bluetooth MM (Mighty Mouse) moves farther than what I was expecting it to move. This happened probably in concomitance with the opening of some application, as Iphoto. In other words, it appeared to me that the pointer accelerated more than what I demanded it to move with the displacement of the mouse. It was not really a jump but almost one, like a transitory, but contained, loss of pointer control.
I believe that a similar event occurred also once with the trackpad pointer when I went to the bottom of the screen to make dock appear in concomitance with a skype call launch....the pointer seemed to move fast to the right although I am quite sure it was not my finger to command this motion on the pad.
I have tried (with respect to MM) to delete and recreate the bluetooth .plist but it did not prevent from having this occurrence (note also that the batteries are OK).
I have read in some other forum that this might be due to OSX pointer acceleration (not perfect) management, but I would like to be comforted by any similar feedback / experience of yours.
Thanks
Cheers

I had a similar problem. I would move my mouse across the screen but randomly it would "catch" or "get stuck" very briefly throughout its movement. Like something was holding it back. I tried replacing mousepads, deleting the Bluetooh connection and re-pairing, deleting preference files...nothing. I even tried buying two new mice but they all had the same problem.
I headed to an Apple Store and a Genius reproduced the problem. He had not heard of this before but it was clearly reproducible in front of his eyes. And sure enough, my Mighty Mouse was working fine on other Macs. So they set up repair job to replace my Bluetooth chipset (which is integrated into the display so they had to replace the display). A day later I picked it up and it works perfectly!
I suggest going to an Apple Store and getting your Bluetooth chip replaced!

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