Mighty Mouse confuses right and left clicks.

My left button works fine. The RIGHT button is a total SHAM. 25% of the time it acts like a LEFT click. It is not where I am pressing the button. If I keep my finger in a consistant spot, the problem still is intermittent. I cant believe after all this time, Mac finally releases a 2 button mouse and "CAN'T GET IT RIGHT" Why on earth would they allow this product to ship when it has blatantly obvious problems? I am really dissapointed in Apple right now. BUYER BEWARE!

I am puzzled by your experience, for my brand new mighty mouse is working just fine. Best multiple button mouse I have ever used. I love the scroll button...

I wonder why you are having trouble?

And your right click works 100% of the time, even after you press the left button several times? Double check this and please post back. Thanks.

Did you mean to direct that message to me?

Both the left and right click work perfectly for me. No troubles at all. Perhaps you need to upgrade to 10.4.2? Only thing I can see that is different between you and me.

My post was directed to you, Joy. Im all updated with OS (10.4.2), and I installed the mouse software, obviously. So there is NEVER EVER EVER a time that you click on the right "button" and the drop down menu doesnt come up? I mean youve tried it back and forth (between left and right buttons) 50 times or more? and 100% of the time, the right button works?
Sorry to sound anal here, but thats how we need to troubleshoot this, since Apple will never chime in here.
Thanks.

Perhaps my expectations were high for the Mighty Mouse, but I thought I would be able to set the buttons much like I set up my keyboard shortcuts for applications. For instance in Safari, I want a left click to go back, a right click to go forward, and scroll click to go home. Other applications would have other settings.

Am I missing something, or should I reset my expectations??

Reset your expectations. I thought "Other..." setting would be customizable. All it does is let you open an application of your choosing. And why wouldnt you be able to assign different tasks to each side button?? That makes no sense. Classic Apple. Come out with a great idea, then fall short when it comes to some common sense conveniences--something that used set Apple apart from the others.

Right click does NOT work in Quark Xpress at all!
Side scroll does not work in Illustrator (although hand tool is better anyway).

Frozo, I wnet hunting around on other Mac forums for an explanation as to why I am not having trouble, but you are...

could this be a possible explanation? I am a leftie, but do not switch the primary click from the left side to the right as most lefties might, because of the way I hgold my mice. I tend to keep my index finger on the left side, and move it to the right side when I need to do a right click. This is mostly because of arthritis in my hands.

So, I am wondering if you have fingers on both sides when you are clicking down, maybe confusing the sensors? I do not know that this is true, but maybe?

The base of the mouse is pretty close to the base of my palm, and my hand kinda wraps around the left side of the mouse, with my left hand index finger resting on the scroll nipple. When I want to primary click, I lift my index finger and click on the left side of the mouse, and when I want to right click, I use that very same index finger to click on the right side of the mouse.

Haven't figured out diagonal scrolling yet... more fun to come...

Interesting theory, but its not the case. I can have just one finger on the right side and it still gives me problems. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt, thats about the gist of it. And i never move my finger from the spot that works, nor do i change the amount of pressure. I kept everything the same for control purposes in my testing. It is very buggy, thats all I can say.

Diagonal scroll doesnt really work too well. Its not a true diagonal scroll. It actually moves between vert and horiz in small steps, but it is extremely hard to find the sweet spot that does this, and is basically useless.

If not even application specific then at least globally would be expected (that I could set keyboard shortcut to mouse button)

I can get application and global settings for both my Kensinton trackball and my Wacom Tablet and mouse.

On the good side. the left and right clicks work well for me and the scroll ball works well (for horizontal and vertical). Trying to drag diagonally is as tough as doing the same with an echi-sketch.

Side button seems very tough to use, would get tiring quickly.

Although most of the time the internal clicks on the moues are nice, why not have the ability to mute it when I mute my computer.

Another disappointment. It is a shame to put a scroll wheel on the mouse and then not support QuickTime VR media. You can scrub through video in linear QT, but no panning in QTVR.

Not the best mouse ever but better than what Apple had before. I would think they would make this the standard mouse for new computers.

I got my mighty mouse today and just plugged it into my work G5, and its working fine considering i didnt install any of the software.

left click is normal, right click works as if the apple key had been held down, scroll wheel works fine. have you tried it without the software installed?

frozo, in my setup, the right click works in quark.

fwiw, we are still on 10.3.9 here at work

I will see what it does at home with 10.4 installed there

The scroll ball does not work in InDesign either. Apart from that it works well.

Spencer,
I'm glad, but amazed your Mighty Mouse's right button mirrors command (Apple key) click -- are you sure you don't mean control click? In my two days of testing to find the justification to buy one, I haven't been able to set any one of the four buttons to perform that action. A shame. I love the design, horizontal scrolling and Dock/Exposé access, but I can't imagine being forced to reach over for my keyboard to perform command clicks again.

It's almost unimaginable the mouse I won't ditch for the aesthetically beautiful and iBook matching Mighty Mouse is a Microsoft optical mouse. Time for a driver update Apple.

Semi-related, how on earth do I find which USB version my machine is sporting? My inability to do that prompted my testing and research. Very glad I did now, or I'd be throwing a Mighty Mouse at my wall every fifth click. After too long Googling all over the Internet, Mac Tracker <http://www.mactracker.ca/> revealed that my iBook's USB maximum speed is enough for a Mighty Mouse, but it'd be very nice if that information was in System Profiler, and if it told me which version it is, something Mac Tracker doesn't seem to do.

I'm glad I found this thread (and this article) before getting a Mighty Mouse. I guess I'll hold on to the Philippe Starck for a while.

MacGee.