Is there a way to adjust the cursor speed on the login splash screen?

I already have my mouse cursor at max speed and its fine once I login, but its irritating when the mouse cursor barely moves in the login splash screen... I don't really recall that this happened on Snow Leopard, unless its just me (according that no other threads mentioned this, unless I missed it)?

Thanks

 

I honestly don't recall that Tiger, Leopard, or SL that it was this slow, or maybe Lion is just even slower? (Obviously, you wouldn't have noticed that w/o using Lion)

This is what I have my prefs setup, but I had to check it several times to think that if some app changed my prefs automatically... but, nope. I've had it on max since I have a fairly large external screen.