Small scroll button on mouse...

Wondering if I have to replace my mouse...or a way to clean or fix it?
The small finger scroll button scrolls up...but does not scroll down. I went into preferences, and nothing is changed as options. Shouldn't be anyway, my wife wouldn't know how to change it, and I certainly didn't.
On a 20" monitor...gets kinda to be a drag to have to move over to the right and scroll the manual down feature. Any ideas what might be happening? Or just time to replace it...?

I had the same thing with my Mighty Mouse and was able to clean it with a baby wipe (for some reason, this got me the best result). It is typically just the normal dust and oil build up, but if you don't clean it when you see it happening, it can make it difficult (I did have one I neglected too long and I was never able to get the scrolling to work properly again). If you use the baby wipe to roll around the scroll button, being sure it rotates fully and that all sides are getting cleaned this usually works for me.
There is also someone who uses a piece of tape, I may try this on my other mighty mouse and see if it helps... http://www.brendanfenn.com/cleanmouse.html

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