Sudden strangeness with mouse and keyboard

I know this is a commonly talked about topic but I feel my case may be a bit different. I have the same jittery mouse problem as well as the display not turning on like everybody. Strangely though, I've had no problems at all since I went to 10.5.2. I think I went two weeks without restarting. All of a sudden though, it went haywire. I've had to restart three times today, after a clean streak of two weeks. If it keeps up I'm going to go crazy. Anybody know any newer fixes or details on this?
For the record I tried the whole turning the AirPort off trick and the mouse jumping was even worse than normal, so it's not that.

Having issues as well with the pointer. It jumps, stutters, jitters. Whatever you want to call it. I have tried a wired Mighty Mouse and just bought a wireless Mighty Mouse this weekend. Still having issues. I have even tried to use just the trackpad with no mouse, same problem. Tried repairing disk permissions with disk utility. The only thing that seems to work is a restart...for a while. I was having wake-from-sleep issues before 10.5.2, then everything seemed to work fine for a few weeks. Now the jitters.
Any ideas?

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???

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