cannot get my logitech mx 700 to work (very close tho!)

This is driving me insane, ive spent hours apon hours on this.
Logitech mx 700 mouse, and i want the side buttons (back, forward) to do their job, espicially in firebird/fox.
I googled my heart out, and forum searched. i got a few things and got very close to workin, but never totally.
Anyways, right now im so close, and yet so stuck! Argh

Heres how it stands:
my XF config section:
#################
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection
#########

my created ~/.imwheelrc:
##########
".*"
None, Up, Alt_L|Left
None, Down, Alt_L|Right
##########

added to my .xinitrc
##############
exec xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" &
exec imwheel -p -k -b 67
#############

This is the closest ive got. Wheel works great, and when i press the side buttons xev even reports "Alt+Left" and "alt+right" being pressed.
However these back/forward just refuse to do anything in any of the apps!!!(firebird)
Wassgoinon? how does the left signal get sent to the xev window but not any others?
or am i completely wrong

if you're using firebird, change the ".*" to ".Firebird". If you're using firefox, it must be changed to "(null)". For some reason, imwheel detects firefox window as (null). What version of imwheel is that? I know one of them had a bug that required you to imwheel -p -k -b 0067.

ok thank you very much, i will try these when i get back from work tonight.

how would i determine what imwheel version i am running? its just the std one that came with mandrake 9.2

I think imwheel -v should give a version. I was having similar issue with imwheel and firefox due to the name change, and there is an imwheel tag -D. It will display what mouse click you did on what window. For firefox, it kept telling me window (null) undefined. Not sure who's error this is, firefox or imwheel, but no big deal. I just added (null) to .imwheel. This may also help you figure out why it's not working for you.

As far as the 0064 bug, that was in a fairly recent pre release. I believe it was pre5.

BTW, that is a great mouse. Worth every penny of $70! I'll never buy a new one!

hmm from some googling it seems that the mandrake 9.2 release is only
0.9.9-5, so its pretty old.
i may have to update. argh i really want to get home and try this out its killing me!

Here's my .imwheelrc. There are subtle differences, not sure what they implicate though.

"(null)"
None, Left, Alt_L|Left
None, Right, Alt_L|Right

Of course, the null used to be ".Firebird"

woohoo yeah!
it works now, thank you greatly.
i didnt need the "0067" in the end