What is your Mighty Mouse set to do?!

Hey guys.
My mighty mouse just arrived, its quite cool. i find the side squeezers very faffy to use though, quite an effort. The scroll ball is great, and it clciks in nicely.
I was wondering what you guys have your buttons set to do?
Right now I am set to:
Scroll Ball Click: Exposé - All windows
Side Squeezers: Dashboard
Scrolling speed: Maximum (Fast)
See ya

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Is there a way I can set up so that all users who have the mighty mouse has the right click function enabled as the secondary action? I dont have time to log in as each user to set it up.
The users also use PPC eMac, those do not have the fancy mouse, just the standard one.
So far i have tried to copy the mouse preferences: com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist. But it does not want to copy to all the users using:
cp -R /Volumes/docs/Mouse\ Prefs/com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist /Volumes/docs/students///Library/Preferences/
Some reason it does not copy the file.
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cp -R /Volumes/docs/Mouse\ Prefs/com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist /Volumes/docs/students///Library/Preferences/
The shell will parse this command by first expanding the "*" to every directory under .../students. It then executes that command - not what you want.
You probably want something like this...
cd /Volumes/docs/students
for dir in * do ; cp /path/to/plist $dir/path/to/PrefsDir ; done
This first expands the "*" to all items in students dir. It then executes the part after the "do ;" for each item in the list, setting the variable "dir" to the first one, then second, etc. The "$dir" gets replaced by the value of "dir".
Note that this will not handle any directory names in /students which have spaces in them (because the 'for' treats spaces as argument separators). if this applies, then changes will have to be made.
Before running it on everything, test run using only one student using...
for dir in chosenName do ; cp /path/to/plist $dir/path/to/PrefsDir ; done
Ths will set 'dir' to 'chosenName' and execute the following bit for that value only (just to ensure it puts what you want, where you want it .
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Resetting bluetooth may fix your mighty mouse scroll button

I have had this problem with the scroll button on my mighty mouse for months and months, and the only advise I have managed to get from here when I complained was to clean it. But I tried that many times and I have had nothing but problems with it, so much so that I recently called Apple and they agreed straight away to send me a new one.
What made me call them today was the clicking action and side buttons on my mighty mouse also failed completely, and I thought the thing was totally broke. Whilst I was on the phone I happened to mention that my wireless keyboard also keeps losing its connection, and the advisor told me to do this following...
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But they said they would still send me out a new one, and so long as they received a mouse back in the post they wouldn't charge me. I accepted that offer and I'll see how it goes with the one I have. I feel that I may have damaged the scroll button trying to clean it and feel that I probably should get a new one anyway on account of that.

Hello stu:
What you apparently did (based on the feedback you got from from Apple) is reset the SMC (system management controller) and the PRAM. When one has odd problems that do not appear software related, those are sometimes suggested as troubleshooting steps.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
Resetting the SMC should not, however, be used until other avenues have been exhausted (based on Apple guidance)
Barry
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Dust, dirt, and such are apt to getting in there. Unplug the mouse, and with a damp cloth, rub up and down, pressing down firmly on the track ball 10-15 times. Repeat side to side, making sure to apply some pressure. This works every time for me when the mouse is acting up or not operating properly.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302417
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What can I do?
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302417 How to clean your Mighty Mouse
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