Wireless Mouse Losing Connection

Anyone else having this problem? It just cuts out and I get the picture on the screen saying "Connection Lost." It doesn't seem to matter what I'm doing. I have an new, extra bluetooth mouse (because I'm clumsy and have tile floors...) and that one won't work either. So, I resort to the wired mouse from my old computer. I've tried new batteries, too, even though there was no warning of them running out of power.
Any thoughts?

I usually turn my BT mouse off and flip it upside down so when the computer comes on next morning at 6, it's not paired.
This morning I turned it on, flipped it to working pose and it didn't pair quickly at all. With fresh batteries, it would work for only a few minutes, then lose its connection.
Over and over and over.
A full re-boot seems to have fixed it, but one is always suspicious after a software update comes in as happened yesterday with iMovie 9.0.2.

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Hello
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