it just occured to me - could you use the external mouse with a ps2
-> serial converter and as a serial mouse? I'm sure if you don't have one
lying around you could pick one up for a buck or two at your local
radioshack or computing store.
just another possibility. A bit of an unfortunate workaround, but if the
other solutions don't work - this at least would.
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