All of my experience (with one exception) has been with Red Hat and Fedora, which are markedly different than that branch. I've never seen an issue with mice. Can you give me more details, errors you are seeing, related entries in /var/log/messages when you plug them in? I may be able to assist, but I cannot guarantee it.
Ok, when I get into that directory, what am I looking for exactly? There are many log files there. Which one should I look at for information?