Lesson Learned – Just Leave IT Alone!
Today, I bought myself a "Logitech TrackMan Wheel" mouse and being the bright person I am, I unplugged my old mouse from my machine (while it was powered on) and plugged in the new mouse. Instantly I could move the cursor across my two desktops at the ease of moving a ball, while my hand frantically tried to move the whole mouse.
Then, I decided to browse a few forums I like to visit, and behold I noticed the scroll wheel did not scroll the page up and down...BLAST! I then proceeded to assume it was a configuration issue and search the Internet high and low for solutions that all failed. Using ZAxisMapping of "6 7" or "8 9", etc. all of it did not work! Restarted X Server countless times all to find out my latest changes were doing nothing but annoying my wife (as when GAIM starts and she is logged in, it automatically sends her a message, and so she got half a dozen or more tonight alone).
Finally, I reverted my X configuration back to its normal settings and decided to lose my up-time statistics to see if a reboot would help anything. TA DA! Everything worked right out of the box. Why I spent an hour earlier trying 50 dozen things that didn't work instead of properly installing the mouse is beyond me, but none the less, I am now a much happier person trying to overcome the frantic need to move the mouse physically to move the cursor.
Let this be a lesson learned, no matter how simple the computer part, it is best to install it with the computer powered off. Who would have guessed?