Not that anyone uses midi any more, but if you PLAYMUSIC "music.mid", you'll get a mouse pointer (in the form of the hourglass) irrespective of what you set SYSTEMPOINTER to.
Use MOUSESTATE and you won't see it anymore. :D
SYSTEMPOINTER FALSE
MOUSESTATE mx, my, b1, b2
Cheers
According to the first post he has tried that already :-)
No, I haven't tried adding MouseState - that has resolved the immediate issue, but I'd still class it is a bug (why would I need to poll the mouse if the mouse isn't used?)