Inconsistant trackpad recognition of two finger click? ..

in safari every so often after using a two finger click to open a link in another tab
my trackpad seems to go wonky and refuses to recognize a two finger click, even though
the two finger scrolling works just fine. At first I thought it was only a safari issue
but once in that state the two finger click isn't recognized in firefox either.
Sometimes I can get it back by restarting Safari, other times I have to reboot my machine.
I've tried different patterns (thumb and little finger) with different spacing and angles (wide side to side, and diagonals etc) with no luck .. although I did notice that when in this state a triple finger
click (from one hand) then acts like a two finger click. I also tried washing my hands and wiping down the trackpad (eyeglass cloth) but nothing seems to work other than the safari/machine restart.
Because it first happened with my gmail I thought maybe it was a webapp thing but I also tried
all of the gmail cleanup suggestions (remove all google cookies, clear cache etc) but then I even noticed it after searching/clicking on the apple support forum links.
Unfortunately I can't quite figure out what starts the problem sometimes its fine for days and then other times it happens early after boot/safari start. I do keep my machine as current as software update allows.

forgot to mention .. when in this state it treats the two-finger click just like a single finger click.

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No, I think we are talking about entirely different things. What I am talking about is this...
For instance, I enter search terms in Google, press enter, it brings up a page of links.
I hover my mouse over one of the links and when I do the black mouse arrow turns into a hand with a pointing finger. I two-finger tap that link and select "Open Link in New Tab". It does. All is well.
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If I am using any Safari version newer than 3.0.4 the mouse arrow will not turn into a hand with finger when I hover over another link. The reason is because when I two-finger tapped that first link the text of the link got "selected" i.e. highlighted. The mouse pointer is now locked into black-arrow-pointer-mode unless I tap the trackpad to release it from that mode.
In Safari 3.0.3 or 3.0.4 a two-finger tap on a link would not select the text of the link and therefore the pointer did not have to be released. It would immediately turn into a hand with finger as soon as it hovered over a new link.
So, why does this matter so much too me? It matters because many web pages have links on them that you cannot even tell are links until you hover your mouse over them, at which time the mouse arrow changes to a hand with pointing finger. If I two-finger tap a link to open it in another tab, and then I continue looking on that page for more links to tap, I cannot discover them. My mouse pointer arrow remains a black arrow even though it is hovering over a link. The reason it remains an arrow is because the first link I tapped selected the text that represents that link and my mouse is now not in the correct mode (mood?) to turn into a hand with finger. I can no longer identify links on that page unless I deliberately tap some place on the screen to release the selected text of that earlier link. The mouse pointer will no longer turn into a hand with pointing finger when hovering over a link. It will remain a black arrow until the text representing the previously tapped link has be released, or deselected.
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