Swiping in Safari just "bounces"

This is just driving me crazy.
Installed Lion and all seemed well.
I have a MPB 2008 with a Magic Mouse.
When I am browsing in Safari (and anywhere else for that matter), if I scroll down and move just a little bit to the right or left then the page "giggles" back and forth and bounces on the edge of the screen. Extremely annoying. If I go to Mouse Preferences and turn off gestures, I STILL get the behaviour. If I go to UA, fourth tab "Mouse and Trackpad" and click on Mouse Options and deselect "scrolling" then I don't bounce around, but I can no longer use the MM to scroll.
Can anyone help me?
Please!

I set the Scrolling option to "without inertia", but I'm not sure that it has solved the problem I have. If I spread my fingers just a little bit while scrolling, the contents of the window, especially in Safari, expand, and then a mouse click is not recognized. I have to jiggle the the contents just a bit to get it to a size where the mouse click is recognized.

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ibook 1ghz 14", 512 ram, 30gb, X 10.3.9.
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