I too use a touchpad and after a few days of things like this happening, I went into the control panel and disabled the tapping option. I just use the pad for pointing and the buttons for commands. Now if I could just stop accidentally clicking on the CLEAR ENTRIES box on my way to the SUBMIT MESSAGE box and absent-mindedly hitting the back button instead of the SUBMIT--and if whoever it is who sometimes erases my messages after I post them and they appear on the threads list, none of you would ever miss another of my priceless contributions to this forum. --seed