Completely Lost Paitence With Trackpad

I am in dire need of assistance, please! I purchased my Macbook (black) around June 15, and have had minor issues with it since. Every now and then the trackpad would become unresponsive (especially when waking from sleep), and i'd have to wait several minutes before I could even use the mouse.
Now the problem has become increasingly bad; the trackpad hardly moves the mouse when I drag my fingers left and right, and WITHOUT even having two fingers on the trackpad, it tends to scoll websites when I only have one finger on there. I've done everything in System Preferences (it has nothing to do with the "Ignore Accidental Input" or anything along those lines; and the geniuses at the Apple Bar keep telling me it does. I keep trying to make appointments with them, but they seem to be so booked I can't ever get it fixed. Does anyone have any recommendations? I use this computer for work and it's honestly ruining productivity, and I'm at a loss here. Thanks so much in advance!

i agree that you should probably contact apple. but to rule out a software driver glitch, try this first: download Sidetrack, it's a third party trackpad driver (i use this instead of the default driver, it's way more powerful and customizable than apple's solution).
http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/download/SideTrack.dmg
it's shareware, but you get to test it out for a few days. if it's still bugged up, then it's a hardware problem and you need it opened up and serviced by apple. good luck.

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