Scroll wheel gone haywire

Recently the scroll wheel on my mouse has gone nuts. It just won't scroll smoothly at all, but jumps up and down all over the page or the website I'm trying to scroll through.
The odd thing is, it's done it on two separate computers, with two completely different mice(?). And it happened around the same time. I'm wondering now if some update may have screwed this up so it doesn't work any more.
The mouse at work is an Ativa optical mouse and the one at home is a Microsoft optical mouse, I believe. Both systems are Tiger, though here at work it's on a G5 Dual Intel. The home computer is the G4.
I'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed this odd change, or if by some weird coincidence it's just happened on my two computers. If this is a known issue, is there a known fix?

If run in Single User Mode it's little danger, in fact it has cured many Problems, but you can do all those yourself step by step if you want a longer drawn out way to do them.
it sounds like it only fixes "startup problems,"
Nope, that is usually it's purpose, but it can right so many other problems.
Also, what "cache files" is it clearing out?
Practically all of them, but new good ones will be recreated on the first bootup.
That sounds like something I might actually need. I'm not exactly sure what's going to happen to all my OS preferences and settings etc.
The only way it vould possibly mess any settings up are if thse files are already damaged.

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If I close Firefox and restart it, the scroll wheel works again (even with the page on which it previously quit. If I leave Firefox running but switch to another application, the scroll wheel works there, so it's unlikely that the driver has become corrupted.
I'm running Windows XP SP3 and Firefox 11.0 (downloaded and installed 4/5/2012)

I doubt that I have a PDF open in another tab because I don't use the PDF plug-in to Firefox. When I go to a web site with a PDF and click on it, I get a pop-up that asks if I want to open it (I use Foxit) or save the file. I often have a PDF open when I'm on a web site however. I just opened one and everything's still OK. Then I went to a web site where I clicked on a PDF and told it to open it with Foxit, and things are still OK.
Like I said, I haven't yet found anything that consistently makes it happen.
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OK, I pieced together the solution. This probably applies to all thinkpads.
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So my problem: I was putting my laptop into the docking station and ultrabase but I wans't power-cycling. I was just ejecting, putting the system in suspend, etc.
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I was also having the scroll wheel pausing tracks and playing tracks when it shouldn't have been doing that.
For me it came down to hardware. I actually got my Xtra aroudn the same time you did and only a few weeks ago did I finally fix it. It was going on for about 2 months, and it just got to the point where I didnt want to use the player because it became such a hassle.
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Hello nveroff,
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A few times a week
== A week and a half after i installed Fox Filter. ==
== User Agent ==
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If you detect a faulty add-on, you should contact its author for support. You can also search for alternatives. Site filters are relatively common in the add-ons gallery: [http://addons.mozilla.org addons.mozilla.org].

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Max

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