Sometimes when the button dies strange stuff happens -- cursor jumping
around, wrong cursor-shape appearing, phantom clicks creating new windows,
etc.  

Somebody suggested a hardware problem requiring reinitialization.
Unfortunately I don't have another 3-button mouse to try.

Ideas?

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Smells like a hardware problem to me, possibly.

Take mouse apart, and see if anything is occluding the switch that the
third button presses.

Or see if the switch feels different when you press it.

Could it have had gunk spilt into it?
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No, no and no :-(  It always feels the same, it just stops working.
Sometimes when I'm not even touching it -- I can see weird window movement
and then bingo!

The thing that bothers me is that running xmseconfig ALWAYS fixes it.
Hardware problems don't generally work that way.

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