On my office laptop, whenever I'm typing an email or forum post, if I pause my cursor just randomly jumps to some other location.  So, if I'm not paying attention and start typing again, I'll be typing in the middle of something I've already typed or lower down in the email I'm responding to.  I initially thought it was something I was hitting with my palm or the side of my pinkie or something...but I've tried hitting all the relevant, obvious keys and such and cannot make my cursor replicate these random jumps.  What do you think I'm doing.  Am I just POSSESSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

yorolpalAm I just POSSESSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not you, but maybe your trackpad!

Yoropal: Am I just POSSESSED
 
No, your pointer is possessed -- you need to summons that mouse or its driver and banish it forever. Good luck!

When using Sonar the mouse pointer on my desktop pc often used to travel left to right across the screens when I wasn't even touching it and even when the open project wasn't even running. This never happened with any other program. I never figured out why and it doesn't do it any more. I had forgotten all about it until I read this thread.

download touchpad blocker - free and free of malware.
 
http://touchpad-blocker.com/
 

Quit moving your finger over the mouse pad!

I used to do that to myself all the time, til I got rid of the wife and her endless shopping.  
 
(then I could finally go out and afford a mouse for the laptop and quit using the ~$@$%*%$ touch pad)
 
Bob Bone
 

I only wish it was me touching the mouse pad...but it's not. I've tried typing with one finger and not touching anything and it still does it. Will try touch-pad blocker and report back. Elsewise I'm afraid I'll have to throw my laptop in front of a moving car.

That use to happen to me on one of my old lap tops, man did it annoy me, that lap top died, and I got a couple of others, has never happened with them. I feel your pain (well, not any more )

That exact same thing has happened to me as well, Ol Pal, on my Dell work laptop. It is very annoying. I never catch it right away and what I spent all this time typing is a jumbled up mess.