Trackpad Button Keeps Registering False Left Clicks

Thanks for the suggestion, but it is not due to the pad being touched. Firstly, I have clicking and double clicking disabled for the trackpad itself, so I would have to hit the actual button below the pad, and I am quite certain I am not. I have been working at this machine for aproxiamtely 8 hours a day since February and haven't registered one false click until today and now it does it very often.

Also the issue is not limited to times when I am typing. I can leave this machine unattended with a Safari Window as the active window, with the cursor over the desktop, and come back a few minutes later to find the Safari wondow inactive and the Toolbar switched to finder.

I can leave my cursor over a link in Safari for a few moments, and typicaly the link will activate, as if clicked, within a few moments.

I think there is probably something wrong with the contacts under the button, but I'm still hoping it is something else because I would hate to part with it long enough to get it fixed. :P

I do apreciate the advice though! Thanks to your suggestion, at least I can type without the cursor repositioning constantly. It will make the machine a lot easier to work with for now.

Found out what was happening with my trackpad button today.

The button thing kept getting worse until it registered as being clicked at all times. I had to set it so that it doesn't accept trackpad input when a USB mouse is plugged in it got so bad.

But at the same time, odd things were happening with the battery. It would get to about 40% on the gauge and then die completely without going into sleep mode. Then I would check the battery gauge underneath and it would not even flash. Plugged into AC, I would turn it back on and the battery would say it was at 40%, even though the thing was so depleted that without AC power, it couldnt turn on the charge indicator lights.

Today, it shut down at 40% life again, and I turned the machine over to check the battery, and the whole top surface was starting to peel away from the battery and the center was bulged. The interior side turned out to be bulging as well.

With the battery out, the trackpad button works fine. With the battery in, it puts enough pressure on the panel above that it interferes witht he button and it fels tight and unresponsive.

So the whole trackpad issue is the result of sharing very close quarters with a seriously damaged battery.



macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.5)