Cursor jumps 10 spaces back with Leopard

Not sure how to solve this, but since upgrading to 10.5.1 my cursor randomly slows down then jumps back about 10 spaces. It does this in Microsoft Word for Mac and webapps. I'm running Firefox on an iBook G4. It's really frustrating. Have searched for a solution in this forum, but not finding one. Can anyone help?
thanks.

I experienced this random-action cursor when first using Mail.app in Panther. That's why I went back to Eudora. Now that I'm on Leopard I find that the cursor spasms remain, though not quite as severe. I'm using Mail.app, mostly, and try to type slowly and carefully. That helps but the action is still there. The Apple key + z sometimes gets me back to where I was.
People have tried the usual recourses (telling the trackpad to ignore accidental brushes, etc.), but the problem is real, and it remains.
This is probably not high on Apple's current agenda even though it prevents at least some portion of the clientele from using Mail.app.
It's a discouraging little problem.

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