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Thanks for the reply. The only other USB devices I have are a Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard. I wonder if starting the computer with the mouse on is causing the problem(?). I will experiement when I get a chance and post the results back here. If that is the case (mouse causing conflict) it won't be very convienient to have to restart the Media Center with the mouse off if I want to use the trackball. Thanks!

I recently recieved the X-Arcade Tankstick with the trackball. The unit is great. However, the trackball is working very strangely within GameEx. Mame32 is set to use mouse as input, the in-game settings are set correctly to use mouse. The trackball moves the cursor in Windows, Media Center and GameEx. I spents hours trying to get the trackball Mame games to work with the trackball. Finally they started working (I don't know what, if anything, I did to make it work). Then I unplugged the X-Arcade unit. After re-plugging it in, the trackball games stopped working again (the movement is controlled by the joystick). I am baffelled. Why did they trackball games finally start working. And why did they stop when I reconnected the unit??? I don't know if this is an X-Arace, GameEx, or Mame issue! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Once other note: When the times when the trackball is not working correctly, Windows Media Player keeps launching. I assume this is some kind of hot-key combo, but I don't know where, or why it seems to be related to the trackball. Any ideas? Many, many thanks!