2008 Macbook trackpad or mouse no longer working

Did a defrag on a non-system drive, and it finished overnight. This morning, was able to use the trackpad to close the program and put the Mac to sleep, to take it to work. When I got to work, the pointer will move using the trackpad, but clicking does nothing. I attached an external wired mouse and the same thing happens. Reset the SMC using Apple's instructions but no change. Restarted in safe mode, no change. Used the repair disk mode at startup, chose 10.8.1 repair disk, no change. Can move the pointer, but clicking does nothing.
Any ideas? I've got the battery out right now, and it's disconnected from the power adapter.
Thanks
Update: Pulling the battery out for 10 minutes before the SMC reset fixed the problem.

Actually, it only worked for about 5 minutes, then it started again. Pulled the battery for an hour, did SMC reset, still not working.
Any ideas?

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