>--- You wrote: > >I have had these problems as well, and have accepted these answers, >however, as the weather gets colder and the air gets drier, the >cursor becomes ever more erratic, and it freezes all the time, >requiring nearly as many restarts as a Windows machine. It is >totally unacceptable. I am very, very careful not to touch the >trackpad with my other fingers, yet sometimes it will take five or >six strokes to get to the point where I want my cursor, several >times getting almost there, and then having the cursor jump away, >like the cursor and the point on the screen I am trying to reach are >opposite poles of a magnet. >--- end of quote --- > I use "Static Guard" a spray that is available at the grocery store etc. I spray the floor and the pad under the iBook. This seems to last about a week and then another spray. Norm_M