2011 MBP click and tap to click stops working at random

I've got a two weeks old MBP 13" it's working perfectly fine most of the time, but I've noticed that sometimes (could be related to waking from sleep) "left clicking" or tap to click with the trackpad stops working.
Everything else works, swiping, secondary clicking and what not.
One way to make the regular clicking work again is by rebooting the computer. Sometimes though, this isn't enough, it might even take two reboots.
Then there are some situations when I'm up late working, and the trackpad fails on me and I'll just close the lid and go to bed, the next morning it might work just fine again.
Has anyone had these same problems with the new MBP? Should I try and get it replaced since it's a brand new computer?

Try logging into another User account and test it from there. You may have a corrupt preference plist file in your main User Library--specifically System Preferences.
HD > User > Library > Preferences > com.apple.systempreferences.plist
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