An amazing breakthrough

OK, not so amazing. I have had mega problems with the touchpad on my work laptop (HP nc8000).

At seemingly random times, I would drag and drop (move) folders in Outlook, select random blocks of text in IE and Word and generally trash documents and configurations.

I re-visited the configuration for the Synaptics TouchPad (Control Panel - Mouse). I disabled ClickLock, Tap and Drag, and all Pointer Motion. Now it seems to work better. Time will tell.

Another problem I had with previous touchpads is the cursor jumping due to static electricity from my hands.