Problems typing/ trackpad problems

Please can you help, having problems since this afternoon with my macbook. Am not very computer literate so please accept my apologies for my basic description and please talk to me like a 2 year old!
ok firstly, when I try to type a sentence the cursor will suddenly turn blue (as if highlighted text) and I can no longer type OR the cursor automatically moves itself to somewhere else in the sentence so my typing is incomprehensible.
secondly, when I used the trackpad and the little arrow moves round its automatically highlighing things and dragging them when I havent selected them.
thirdly, I have never used the 'middle' button on the bottom of the track pad but the document I am typing will suddenly freeze and I have to press this middle button to almost restart it again
lastly when no applications are open and I select something on the dock its actually moving the icon and a little white cloud appears by it and it wont go
Please help! I've no idea what I have accidently pressed to cause this

I can touch on one of the issues you had. I have had similar problems while typing over the past year. My Macbook is the original black model that came out in 2006. In May of last year, when typing in Word, a text editor program, and even in Safari, my Macbook's text on the screen would skip back to a beginning of a sentence or a phrase (if doing a Google search in Safari). It would also highlight text as I was typing and consequently the highlighted text would get deleted. Sometimes the text output would not be what I was actually typing.
The first time I brought the machine to the Apple Store Genius Bar that May, the techs replaced the whole top case (including the keyboard). Everything seemed fine for about six months, but the problems started occurring again.
I took the machine back to the Apple Store this week (I have been using an external keyboard most of the time and could deal with this annoying issue). The Genius Bar tech said the problem was not with the keyboard or the logic board, but with software that wasn't compatible with Snow Leopard or software that was maybe PowerPC. He also suggested the User LIbrary was corrupted. In light of these possibilities, the Genius Bar tech suggested a few remedies: 1) Back up the hard drive and do a clean install of the operating system (completely erase the hard drive, reformat it, then reinstall the operating system, then restore it using Time Machine or any other backup software you use), 2) Create a new user account and use that to see if that solves the problem, or 3) Delete software that is not compatible with Snow Leopard (any program that is not 64-bit). He recommended opening up Activity Monitor and looking to see which programs are running that are only 32-bit and delete those.
I tried option #1 and this solved the typing issues I was having.

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