Mouse and Keyboard

[J]

My mouse and keyboard have been 'losing it' a lot lately and I have to 
unplug and plug in again. Sometimes I have to plug each into it's own 
USB slot to make them work.

Are there some prefs I can trash to make the USB connection more 
reliable? The computer seems to be frozen when this happens.

Or is this just the white mouse syndrome?

10.2.6 is on this thing and I can't update it just yet................
Getting  a new Laptop soon.

Thanks