I just finished installing blender, but I noticed that the mouse wheel only zooms out. It doesnt zoom in no matter which way I spin it. It works fine in Wings so I dont know why the wheel isnt working in blender. Any ideas? Perhaps there might be a patch or something. If worst comes to worst I could use a different way to zoom but I dont know how to switch the hotkeys in blender. Any help would be great,
You can do Control MMB, or Numpad +/-.
I’ve seen others with your problem. Unfortunately I don’t know how to fix it.
Thanks for replying. I guess I will have to make do then. Is there a way that I can disable the wheel control so that i dont accidently hit it as I get used to using the keyboard to scroll?
Don’t give up quite yet, someone else might be able to help you. 
To disable your mouse wheel, you’ll have to go to your mouse settings.
I’ll keep working at it.
Did you try
user preferences --> view & controls --> mouse wheel --> invert zoom? I don’t know that it will correct your problem, but it may isolate it.
Are you on a mac? Sometimes working on a mac at school, I have that problem. Then it is just a hardware problem.
in control panel check your mouse wheel setting.
If you are on a mac using Mighty Mouse, your scroll “wheel” is just a bit gunked up. This is a common problem with Mighty Mouse, but fixable.
http://www.askageek.com/2006/07/26/apple-mighty-mouse-click-scroll-wheel-wont-scroll/
If you’re on a PC, it’s still probably just dirt or gunk inside the mouse.