Wired Mouse Occasionally Wants To Jerk Away In Other Direction

First off,
I loved my Mighty Mouse, but the "Connection Lost" issue got progressively worse and two trips to The Genius's ( including a new Bluetooth Card ) did diddly to fix it.
My wired mouse has been generally more dependable, but I often get a pull to the upper right when trying to swipe from the upper right to the lower left . . . this repeats 3 or 4 times till I get it to cooperate and follow me down.
My "mouse pad" is a wooden table to the iMac's right which seems otherwise fine for smooth mouse moves.
I have not, however, ever done much in System Preferences with setting up a mouse's preferences like : "primary button", "scrolling" or "double-click" as all that stuff always seemed too complicated to me.
Could that be the root of this quirky response problem ?
TIA !

It just might simply need cleaning.
How to really clean your Mighty Mouse (with caution!):
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1537
and:
http://web.mac.com/karelgil/iWeb/MacWebSite/MightyMEng.html

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