Mullins solution worked for me.
Found the solution for this issue in another bug as well.
Located:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcursor/+bug/138491/comments/22
Peekie wrote on 2009-01-25: #22
Installing a mouse cursor theme has kept me busy for a couple of hours. I agree
with
Just realized that some people who find this may not know how to open as
root. For those new souls press alt -f2 and type gksudo nautilus to
open the file explorer and when you get to the index.theme file do the
same thing except type gksudo gedit and then drag the file into gedit
which will let
