Originally posted by Lebowski316:
have you recently given it a static shock? i onced had a touchpad die on me from walking across carpet and when i touched it POW! it was dead.

~Andrew



Sounds pretty likely ... the symptoms described sound just like if you were holding two fingers on your trackpad and trying to use it that way (the cursor compromises by going in the middle, then 'pulls back' toward the other finger when you let go of one). There may be something encouraging the cursor to believe that there is contact somewhere on the trackpad.