I've gotten used to this over the past two years but this goofiness with mistaking left-clicks for right-clicks may be the straw that broke the camel's back. Do I need to try that yet again, despite previous failures to solve the problems? How long does it usually *take* before the touchpad drivers on a laptop actually work properly? Mine have been hyper-sensitive from the start and frequently behave as if I've touched the touchpad when my hands are hovering well above it. I haven't tried a driver refresh lately because none of my previous driver updates actually accomplished anything very dramatic. I've looked at my hands and they are not on the right hand side of the touchpad when I click yet the touchpad continues to behave as if I am on the bottom right corner rather than the bottom left corner.

Sometimes, it takes 3 or 4 tries before it actually treats a left-click as a left-click and not a right-click. As a result, I am constantly closing context menus that I didn't want so that I can do what I actually want to do. It's gotten especially bad in the last few weeks and in almost every case, treats a normal left click as a right click. It's a 5559 and the touchpad has *always* been flaky despite several installations of the 'latest and greatest' touchpad drivers.

I am increasingly frustrated by the behaviour of my Dell laptop, which is two years old.