Anyone else had problems with their Microsoft Sidewinder Mouse?

So I got this mouse for christmas (heck of a suprise mind you) and have thouroughly enjoyed it so far, but have recently been running into some problems. Firstly, the mouse seems to be randomly recording macros on me (found this out when it freaked out in a game of TF2, and had me losing control of my character). Then, all of a sudden my "Quicklaunch" button (the little button that opens the windows Game Menu is Vista) just stopped working. I know that the button isn't all that super, but it helped get rid of some desktop clutter and I