Stuck after setting Mouse to Expose all windows

I stupidly set my mouse button to Expose all windows. Now everytime I click it, it either exposes all windows or goes back to one of them. It does not allow me to click anything else, so I am stuck. Who can help?

Found the problem...
I use an application called SteerMouse. In this app, the set up for my mouse's side buttons was still directed to where it had been for Leopard (Applications/Expose.app). I just had to re-direct SteerMouse to the location of expose in SL; Applications/Utilities/Expose.app

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