The Mouse window in my System Preferences doesn't give me the option to assign the buttons

My mouse has suddenly decided over the weekend to assign the middle button to expose. It's bloody annoying because it's far too sensitive and every time I try to left click it now shows me all the open windows. I had turned the middle button off when I got the iMac a year ago because I found it far too sensitive for my fat fingers but it's suddenly started doing it again. While that in itself isn't a huge issue, what is a problem is that when I go in to System Preferences - Mouse the usual diagram with scrolling options that allows you to assign and change the assignations of the buttons isn't there. The upshot is I can't turn the damned thing off.
Any ideas?

The only times I've seen this happen is when other drivers are installed that conflict with Apples. USB overdrive is one of those but there are several.
Once those third party drivers are uninstalled the Apple prefpane normally comes back.
Regards,
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