Wireless Mighty Mouse causing kernel panics on 10.4.9

I get this all the time now that i'm on 10.4.9 everytime I try to reconnect mighty mouse.
can do nothing except force restart.
anyone experiencing similar problems? hope there's a solution soon.

Hi Barry
I knew I should have copied the log out before hitting "send to apple".
I cant remember what I saw in there, but it already happened twice, whenever I try to reconnect the mouse. And thanks, cause I just realised I didnt remember seeing it happened after I upgraded to 10.4.9; it was imediately after I installed 3 updates:
Battery Update 1.2
AirPort Extreme Update 2007-003
I cant rmeember the last one, but I couldn't have possibly installed this, could i?:
Security Update 2007-005 (10.3.9 Client)

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