I don't know what's being done to GAE-4 regarding this screen scrolling behaviour, but I find the mouse-at-edge scrolling perfect, and only use the cursor keys for finer control (though I've just found that I can set the scroll speed in the .ini file too).
One thing which is a bit of a pain is when I'm doing something else (phone call, etc) and inadvertently nudge the mouse, causing the screen to madly scroll in some random direction. Would it be possible to make it stop at the game edge or not work when paused?