Woes With the Magic Mouse...

I am a proud new owner of an iMac 27 Inch computer. Everything is working flawlessly, except for one thing. I have had the computer for maybe two days, transferred all the info from my old iMac.
Recently, I was playing World of Warcraft when the game froze on me and forced me to power down the computer. Upon rebooting my computer, I noticed the mouse cursor speed had been set to an ungodly speed, and the cursor was zooming around the screen like crazy. I nearly had to set the tracking speed all the way down for it to be tolerable. Afterwards, I also noticed that my scroll features on the mouse were no longer working. I opened up the preferences to check and see what was wrong, and now my Mouse Preferences window doesn't even recognize it as a Magic Mouse, but a standard wireless one.
I want to get the Magic Mouse back up and working, but I have no idea where to go from here. As far as I know, I have all the drivers installed and working, am up to date with Snow Leopard 10.6.4, but the mouse is not being recognized as anything but a standard wireless.
Please help.

Hi m:
There are several things you can try (more or less one at a time) to try to fix the problem.
1. Run repair disk from your software install DVD.
2. Trash a preference file (com.apple.bluetooth.plist) and restart.
3. Reset the SMC:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
4. Reset PRAM:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
5. Go to system preferences>bluetooth and delete the mouse. Restart and see if it is discovered as a magic mouse.
6. If everything else fails, reinstall OS X 10.6 from your software install DVD (over your existing system) and then run software update.
Barry
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I want my Magic Mouse back !!!!
Any idea anyone ?
P.S. I'm sssssoooo freak'n mad to VMware right now.

Sounds to me like you have one of several issues going on there.
You may have a lot of interference in the same frequency as your bluetooth device.
Or - you may have a bad bluetooth transceiver in either your mouse or your computer.
Take the mouse to another computer with bluetooth on it and sync it to that - if it works fine then your computer or your environment is the culprit there ( um this assumes that you took your mouse to another location, say your friends house where the interference threshold is bound to be different than at your house), and you should then take your computer out of the house for the day, and see how the mouse works away from home.
If the mouse is bad - you will have issues if you take it to another location - replace it - check warranty
If you think is is your house / place you have your computer, that may contain an the interference that messes with your mouse:
Try turning everything off you can think of in your house / office, and see if it gets better. Also - a big one - make sure that your computer and mouse are not to close to any speakers / etc, as they do have a magnetic field that could cause a mess with bluetooth mice. (rare but it happens)
As you can see in your error message:
10/7/10 2:32:59 AM kernel 0f5f3900AppleMultitouchHIDEventDriver::start entered
10/7/10 2:33:02 AM kernel BNBMouseDevicewaitForDatad8-30-62-38-b8-ff Timeout waiting for data
10/7/10 2:33:02 AM kernel BNBMouseDevicegetExtendedReport getReport returned error e00002d6
it made a connection - then timed out -
Also check the silly things - like are the batteries dead?
Last thing I can think of - is to delete the mouse all together, then re-discover it -
Um - after replacing the batteries of coursse - just to be SURE.
Then you can turn everything back on in vmware etc - you may also want to make sure that you have the latest version and additions etc installed.
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