I got a brand-new iBook G4 and it had a jumping trackpad while Airport was doing something. Disabling Airport and the problem stopped. CPU was _not_ maxed out at that moment. It must have been something else. At first I thought that the new iBooks had lousy Apple Trackpads after they changed away from their previous supplier. But that probably isn't it. So look at your network setting and disconnect to see if this changes things. It's now working for me, by the way, also with Airport enabled. I don't know what has changed. My best guess that there is/was some contention in the kernel where the trackpad and the airport driver were both busy doing stuff plus something else (mds was running at 20% as well). Now that this "something" is done the problems are also gone. Björn