What is wrong with my 2730p? (Lag, Mouse Device Problems)

long story short, i have been having tremendous usability issues with my laptop, including mouse problems and tremendous lag (both with and without the hdd), and missing/broken system files which sfc/ scannow fails at fixing.
the system in question has an L9400 cpu, 4 gigs of ram, vista business and linux mint 11 installed in a dual boot configuration to a toshiba  mk1633gsg mini sata  hdd, and there are also many livecds and liveusbs that are used with this pc.
an hp technician on another forum has informed me that these issues may be indicative of a failing hdd, and it has been made apparent by many other users on some other forums that toshiba hdds have a pretty bad reputation ... however, after removing the hdd and running the system from a livecd, i have surprisingly encountered many new problems:
(the following occurs with the hdd removed)
a linux mint 6 live cd which works perfectly fine for all other tested systems gets stuck while loading the os. it either gets stuck while loading "acpi modules" or " /casper/vmlinuz" or, if it can get past those, the os loading progress bar gets stuck at approximately the same place each time, where it will stay motionless until the system quits on its own and spits out this error: "isolinux: disk error 01, ax = 4200, drive 9f"
the laptop can boot from a linux mint 11 livecd about 50-60 percent of the time. the other 40-50 percent of the time, it also gets stuck at loading "acpi modules" or " /casper/vmlinuz" BUT if it can get to the screen where there is a progress bar, it tends to load the os completely.
while running from a linuxmint 11 livecd with the hdd removed, in a very well conditioned room, suddenly:
with about 15-20 tabs open, after watching a few youtube videos, i lost ctrl-v paste.
then i lost right click functionality,
then i lost the ability to alt-tab into other open programs,
then i lost the ability to click on anything other than what is within the firefox window (i could click on all of the browser buttons, all of the tabs, all of the links but i could not shrink or minimize the window or switch to another program).
then there was lag when saving a txt file to a portable hdd.
this is utterly bizzare. with the ram passing 8 hours of memtest86 without errors and with the hdd removed and with only about 20 tabs open, what could be causing these problems?
furthermore, with the hdd attached:
in vista and linuxmint 11 (both installed to hdd), the mouse problems are currently:
the right mouse button becomes unresponsive after about 3-7 tabs are opened in firefox OR after a large video file is opened in vlc,
the left mouse button will randomly lose functionality after about 10 tabs are opened OR after a large video file is opened in vlc (the lmb will randomly work in some windows and not in others or it becomes completely unresponsive),
usb mice which used to work perfectly fine are no longer recognized and
the pen may not work at all upon boot.
furthermore, there have been 2 longstanding mouse problems that have been with this pc for as long as the current hdd has been in use;
the left mouse button becomes completely unresponsive in flash games (while still working outside of the game) when a moderate number of targets appear (5 enemies),
and the pen has the strange tendency to connect the leading points of successive dashes and lines shortly after those lines are drawn (eg: if i draw a lowercase t, with one line going downward and the other going from left to right, the resulting figure will look like a cross for about .25 seconds before it suddenly and inexplicably transforms into a 'number 4' shape with a very thin line connecting the leading edges of the 2 dashes), thus making it completely useless for drawing and handwriting recognition.
prior to the hdd scans, these mouse problems would occur without fail about 15 seconds (and no sooner, strangely) after the enter password screen appears on vista or immediately upon boot in linuxmint and there would also be incredible lag associated with every mouse click in both vista and linuxmint (including an extra lag of about 7-30 seconds every 3 seconds in vista).
this is the 2nd hdd to fail in this laptop in 2 years, albeit both hdds had a few years of use.
the following TESTS have been conducted:
ran the embedded hp hdd and memory diagnostics , passed with no errors , had no effect
the hdd passed seatools' long test , and the ram passed 8 hours of memtest86 with both sticks of ram connected. i have not (yet) attempted to run memtest with the reverse orientation or with each stick by itself.
here is the crystaldisk info report:
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the hdd instafailed both smartudm and the 'toshiba smart' test (from hirens boot cd 15.2 )due to not detecting an ide drive.  
the toshiba error was: 'NG device defective' ...
the smartudm error was: 'error, ide drive not found'
here are the temps accoding to CPUID  HWMonitor 1.23:
afternoon:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/6/uhw.png/%5D%5BIMG%5Dhttp://img6.imageshack.us/img6/6809/uhw.p...
night:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/850/3i8o.png/%5D%5BIMG%5Dhttp://img850.imageshack.us/img850/360...
clicking the health tab of the free version of hdtune (to check the SMART status) causes the program to become unresponsive.
ran windows memory diagnostic, passed with no errors  , had no effect
ran vista disk check ... had no effect ... found bitmap errors, crosslinked files, orphaned files ... can produce logs if desired
ran sfc /scannow ... found numerous missing and broken dlls ... more info in this link:
http://www.pchelpforum.com/xf/threads/hardware-tests-for-malfunctioning-laptop-2730p.154894/#post-99...
the operating temps are not the highest they've ever been ... between 37-40 degrees celcius
ac adapter voltage (checked with multimeter) is perfectly stable and within parameters ...
pc wizard 2012 crashes immediately upon starting and restarts into debug mode ...
another disk check, following a hard shutoff, has resulted in more stabilized behavior; lag and mouse problems only occur if a certain (small) amount of system resources are used (3 tabs in firefox before problems start occuring).
 is it possible that some other problem is causing the hdds to fail? i'm wondering if there may be a capacitor problem or something ...
there are some new problems:
i get this message: 'Non-System disk or disk error' (with the main hdd connected) despite the fact that no external drives are connected. usually, turning the pc off and on again resolves this, but i wonder if this is indicative of a bigger issue.
also, it is really difficult to boot from usb for some reason; despite attempting many methods, hirens boot cd had to be burned to a cd before i could use it.
related earlier threads:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-e-g-Windows-8/Hardware-Tests-for-Malfunctioning-2730p...
http://www.pchelpforum.com/xf/threads/hardware-tests-for-malfunctioning-laptop-2730p.154894/
PS: pending your responses here i may attempt to update the bios.

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    # connection loss (even when AExtreme is very close)
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    The Frolick wrote:
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