As a matter of fact, I did all the search work before posting except on
woodmann. Compuserve's database does not help, nor does the general
web or USENET. Many pages talk about previous versions or different
mouse types. There is a similar post on this board

http://www.exetools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2560

but it has only the problem, not the solution. Don't tell me switching to
PS/2 mouse is the solution.

Anyway, looking on woodmann now and try to find something. Every option
change of SoftICE requires rebooting, which is very time consuming. Hope
it may work out but really not optimistic.