I have observed this as well.
After a burn, the cursor gets stuck on a pointer with a disc icon. Changing the cursor sets in windows control panel has no effect. A soft restart has no effect
It is necessary to shut the pc down and start it up again for the cursor to return.
Happens for me on Win XP Home Edition SP2
Does not occur on Professional Edition SP2.
Any chance this could be looked at? It's VERY annoying.
Peter