Second button on a wireless mightly mouse

I just got a wireless mighty mouse. Despite everything, I cannot get the right click to engage. It's done it like twice, but not come back. I've tried setting it to multiple functions and that doesn't matter. I think it is just the mechanics of the click. Anyone have advice. I'm frustrated since everything else I've ever bought from apple just works out of the box.
Mighty Mouse on a 17" Mac Book Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   Mightly mouse problems

FWIW, you're not alone. These two threads have similar descriptions of the same problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=592098
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2824263
We have two BT MMs at home, one with the problem, one without. Returning the one that was having right-click problems to our local Apple Store and swapping it for a new one fixed the issues I was having (without needing any software uninstalls / reinstalls, which is what makes me think it's a hardware issue affecting some subset of the mice).

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