Wireless Mighty Mouse right click not responding

I was happily using Final cut Pro but noticed that the right click on the mighty mouse wasn't working. I checked my settings of the mouse and confirmed that 'secondary button' was selected, but no right click was picked up in any application.
Rebooted Mac with no effect. Switched right button to 'Expose' but that wouldn't work either.
Solution: Took batteries out of mouse and reinserted. All now resolved.

Have you shut down (powered off) the Mac and restarted since this problem occurred? Have you turned OFF Bluetooth and turned it back ON? Have you checked the strength of the two batteries in the mouse?
The buttons not working does not sound like a typical cleaning or hardware issue (although the scroll ball not scrolling is probably a cleaning issue). It may be a software problem.
First, go to System Preferences +Keyboard & Mouse+ pane Mouse tab, and make some changes to the settings of the buttons that do not work. Change them any to a different setting. See if each change takes effect. If it does, change it back to the way it was before. This will rewrite the preference settings, and hopefully get those buttons working again.
I would also do the usual general trouble-shooting actions. Run Disk Utility and use the +Repair Disk Permissions+ routine. Then restart using the reset PRAM command.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

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