> [ ... ] As soon as I touch the
>mouse, the cursor gets stuck in the upper right hand corner of the screen,
>and movements of the mouse cause the X background menu to flick open and
>close in that corner, too fast to actually select any of the options.

Sounds to me like the wrong keyword in your XConfig or XF86Config file. 
If you use "PS2aux" or whatever it is instead of "busmouse" you will get
this behavior.

It may be a ps/2, but the language gets translated a little bit..

Cheers,
Phil
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