CURSOR ON WIRELESS MOUSE FREEZING AND COMPUTER

Hi.. I have had this problem for about a week now....
I have a sony vaio windows 7 IE 8 Laptop that I love and it is only a year old.
in the past 5 days the cursor on my logitech wireless mouse freezes. The only way to get out of it is ctrl. alt. del and it goes to my home screen and I cancel and the cursor comes back.. sometimes I go for hours and it doesnt
freeze and then sometimes it freezes every 5 minutes. there are times when I ctl. alt delete and it goes to my screen and I have to manually shutdown as even if I touch the pad on my laptop I cannot close it.. and of course when the cursor freezes
the screen freezes too.

Just to let you know that there is nothing wrong with my battery or mouse
as I have another one just like it and it does the same thing

I contacted Sony Vaio and they came in by remote and put in a patch
and said that should do the trick. but it did not...

any ideas....

do you need more info and if so what else would help in this situation.

I also play some games and that is when I most get this. and I have
the flash 102..... the latest version. and my java is uptodate.

I should also say that at times my IE8 says not responding.....

thanx Coco.

p.s.I have a friend who is very computer savy and comes in by remote
to fix things on my computer and this is stumping even him..

little usb thing is on the side of laptop on right handside right near the front..... there are three ports on that side and I just moved it to the third one..
i have my cooling pad plugged in there too

it is on the right
i have three ports on the right
it usually freezes when I play games
like jeopardy on facebook
or wheel of fortune as dumb as it all is
lol

I don't know what you mean by latest driver
I have the same mouse since I got the laptop
June 2010....

and the latest flash is 102.......
and i have that

how would i look in my computer for latest driver although i dont think that applies...since it is the same mouse since i got the computer and where do I look for flash....

also it just started happening

am i confusing you lol

thanks for the link for flash player
could you tell me where I look in my control panel to find out what I have then I could tell you.. I believe I have it.