I am currently running Mountain Lion 10.8 and using the Beta 6 drivers. I have not tested this technique with the other drivers, but I suspect it will run the same, but your milage may vary. Anyway, here's the instructions:
1. Open the AppleScript Editor.app (located in the Utilities folder)
2. Paste the following code into the editor:
tell application "System Preferences"
run
set the current pane to pane "3Dconnexion"
quit application "System Preferences"
end tell
3. Press the Compile button at the top of the editor window
4. Save the script to your computer and give it a name like "3DConnexionActivation" or something that makes sense. Be sure to set the File Format to Application before saving the script. Do not check any of the checkboxes.
5. Quit ActionScript Editor.
6. Add your newly created applet to your startup items (which is found in the Users & Groups preferences). That's it! You can also test it by double-clicking the app as well, although you won't see anything, as it runs hidden. If for some reason you don't like that it runs hidden, and you want to see it open and close the preference pane, just change 'run' in the script to 'activate' and it will no longer run hidden.
Hope this helps. Worked for me so I thought others might like this approach to a very simple problem. Anyway, good luck!
