Wireless Mighty Mouse interference under Leopard

Hi.
I recently upgraded to Leopard and I'm experiencing interference with my Wireless Mighty Mouse since: the cursor starts jumping erratically. The thing is - this only happens when I'm doing *Java debugging in my Eclipse IDE*. For the rest of the time, it works pretty much OK (may still jitter on occasion).
I'm using TimeCapsule in 2.4 GHz, this caused some problems before I changed the default channel. I powered it down completely and I'm still getting the same interference. This is not due to heavy CPU load - in other cases of heavy CPU usage the mouse works fine. I also tried switching to a wired MS mouse or using the TrackPad and it works OK.
Any clues?
Thanks,
Zviki

Thanks to the good people in java-dev mailing list, I found that it's spindump causing the slow-down. When the application hits a breakpoint it becomes non-responsive. The system decides it's time to activate spindump to dump the process information, in order to "report the problem".
This is totally wrong behavior. Spindump eats the CPU, making the mouse unresponsive.

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