Two Wireless Mighty Mice losing connection on two macs - what's going on?

I have a PowerMac G4/466 and a Power Mac G5 Dual 2GHz. Yesterday I bought two wireless apple keyboards and mighty mice, with D-Link BT dongles, for both computers. I have the same problem on both. Basically, the mice lose connections so frequently (actually, the connection is lost constantly) that I have had to go back to my wired mouse to get any kind of quality work time on my Macs. For some reason, when the wireless keyboard wasn't connected, the mighty mouse on the G4 worked fine (haven't tested this on the G5 yet). I have looked through a few of the topics in this forum and all I seem to find is other users who have the same problems but no answers. Can anyone give me a few pointers to try and sort this problem? I would like to use the wireless mighty mouse and for it not to be a waste of money buying.

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