Why won't my magic mouse scroll on 10.7.3?

My magic mouse has stopped scrolling out of the blue.  I've taken a look at all preferences, restarted, shut down, etc. and can't seem to re-enable.

Curious.  I've seen conflicts with the PrefPanes when USBoverdrive was installed.  Normally the Mouse preference pane doesn't show the Magic Mouse options. 
Try trashing the mouse preference file located in
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist
~ is your home folder name.
Your home folder library is hidden by default in Lion but can be reached by starting a Finder window and then on the Menubar,   Finder > Go > hold the Option key down > select Library.  In the resulting screen find the Preferences folder and drag the file above to your desktop.
Restart.   OSx will create a new Preference List with default settings so you might have to visit any custom settings and reset them.

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