USB mice, acceleration curve discrepancies and a whole lotta 'whah??'

Hi all.
I have been using my MacBook with a combination of the trackpad and a Microsoft Wireless Notebook Opitcal Mouse 4000. Both of which work very well for me.
After putchasing an old Apple Pro USB mouse on eBay I noticed for the first time that the acceleration was really messed up. I started reading into the acceleration curve concept with OS X and learned that it has caused other folks problems as well. Since this issue I have not used the Apple Pro mouse as it puts a surprising amount of tension in my arms and neck trying to compensate for the change in accelaeaition.
I recently purchased a vertical mouse from Evoluent which uses a neutral 'handshake grip' to eliminate the twist in your forearm when using a mouse. The ironic part is that I purhased this verticle mouse to eliminate the possibilty of RSI am back in the same situtaion as with the Apple USB mouse.
I have tried a product called USB overdrive and it has helped somewhat but I cannot figure out why the MacBook trackpad and the Mcrosoft Mouse don't have this issue.
Ay thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks Mac Gods,

Anyone with any experience with these, or have a suggestion?
The main thing is compatibilty with OS 10.8.5. Even though a lot of the controllers are listed as Class Compliant, there's still some posts out there about problems using some of them with 10.8.5.
Thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Suds . . .

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