Strange mighty mouse pointer: arrow gone

My mouse pointer has been acting strange recently (maybe connected to 10.4.3?); it seems to only be in Safari not in Finder or other programs. The mouse pointer normally adapts to what it's over: it's a thin vertical line when over text, a hand when things can be moved, and usually an arrow. But now it's turning to a text-line icon as soon as it enters the safari screen, whether it's over text or not. If I right click it twice it goes back to arrow, but otherwise it's the wrong pointer. This is most annoying when I'm using the scroll bars or trying to click tabs (since it's not intuitive to scroll using a text edit vertical line, and even more difficult to close a tab with a line rather than arrow!).

Actually got solved by pulling usb plug out of keyboard and plugging it back in. I think it was caused when I pulled out the keyboard usb from back of machine, somehow messed up the mouse which was plugged into it.

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