Talking Out Of Turn
Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000 Emacs mappings

Thought this might be useful for people.  This will let you map the zoom and back/forward buttons.

(define-key global-map (kbd "<C-wheel-up>") (lambda ()
                                              (interactive)
                                              (text-scale-increase 1)))
(define-key global-map (kbd "<C-wheel-down>") (lambda ()
                                                (interactive)
                                                (text-scale-increase -1)))
(define-key global-map (kbd "<M-left>") 'previous-buffer)
(define-key global-map (kbd "<M-right>") 'next-buffer)