mouse sticking on tooltips

Hello,
I am running XP Pro SP2 on a fast new laptop. For a few weeks all has
been good but over the last few days my cursor has been sticking
randomly when I move it over or passed an icon, link, the start bar,
anything that generates a tool tip. It's only momentary but is
beginning to become very annoying. My mouse is also new, a Microsoft
Notebook Optical Mouse 3000. This occurs even by running the cursor
across the taskbar straight after start up with no software
applications running.

I have a second similar laptop with the same setup and running
virtually the same software and even an identical mouse. The second
machine in almost a year old and does not have this problem. Swapping
the mice between machines doesn't fix the problem.

Has anyone else experienced this - does anyone know the solution?

Thanks
Shutey

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