Removing Generic Mouse from the ServerLayout section seems to have cured the problem.
Notwithstanding Branden's wishlist "[auto-] reconfig on boot" assessment, I think this is a (non-wishlist) bug on dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 when /dev/psaux ImPS2 with kernel 2.6.
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