Cannot disable trackpad 'touch to click'

Last week I installed the latest updates for my OS X Leopard Macbook (ver 10.5.8). Since then, my trackpad has been hyper sensitive and is constantly highlighting things and dragging things around when I'm just using it to scroll the cursor. I've gone into Preferences-->Trackpad and disabled "Clicking" and even "Secondary Clicking," but the problem hasn't gone away at all. It wasn't a problem at all until I downloaded those updates.
I've searched the forums for an answer to this problem but couldn't find any other than 'take it to an Apple store.' Does anyone have any thoughts about what I could try? Thanks.

iwebdrivingmecrazy wrote:
I have checked for updates and it says everything is up to date. I just bought it from the apple store yesterday, so I would think once it installed, it would be all good, but not so much.
The touch to click doesn't work on the magic trackpad at all.
Are you saying that your prefences for the Magic trackpad shows all the 4 touch gestures? Mine only shows 3 finger gestures. Even under all the demonstrations for the additional gestures, it shows demos of 3 finger gestures only.
What am I missing?
Did you check for updates while the MT was connected?
My Trackpad Prefs show 2 options under Four Finger.
I dunno that you're missing anything, but something doesn't sound right. Try clicking on the button "Set up BT trackpad" in Trackpad prefs.
If no luck, open BT prefs and remove MT. Restart MBP and add it again.

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iwebdrivingmecrazy wrote:
I have checked for updates and it says everything is up to date. I just bought it from the apple store yesterday, so I would think once it installed, it would be all good, but not so much.
The touch to click doesn't work on the magic trackpad at all.
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