Cursor jumps everywhere while typing causing text in random places

This never happened with my previous laptop so I wondered if I was leaning on the touchpad too much, I kept reducing the sensitiviy but this was making it useless.
I think though even thought I have made this post I might have fixed the problem as it hasn't happened once since I've written this post so just incase it helps anyone else:
Double click on the icon in the tray > Advanced tab > Advanced features settings > Settings on the bottom right > Tapping settings > Operations during key input. I checked this and left the slider in the middle for now. Then Applied and Okayed out of a million windowns. This SEEMS to have stopped it for now.
Hope it helps anyone else having the same problem, it's certainly stopped my cursor floating about the place while I'm typing. If anyone has any other ideas I'm happy to hear them too.

It's not as accurate as I'd like it to be, actually I tried the synaptics driver and it worked much nicer but didn't have a scroll function so I came back to Alps. There's a setting tucked away to stop the cursor from tapping while you're typing and that has done it for me.
Not as nice a touch pad as when I had my Equium, that scrolled perfectly, this seems to jump all over the place sometimes. Unfortunately some junkie's kid will have that laptop by now.

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