Decreasing sensitivity of trackpad

I have just purchased a mac os x leopard and have not been able to decrease the sensitivity of the trackpad. When I place the cursor over something, simply removing my finger actually moves the cursor off of the chosen spot that I want to click on! I went to systems preference and then to trackpad and there is no option to change the sensitivity!( I also went to keyboard/mousepad.) I also would like to increase the speed of deleting when using the delete button to move the cursor. Where is this option?

1. You are posting in the Tiger 10.4 forum area. You are running Leopard 10.5.
2, I assume your Mac purchase was a new MacBook. Perhaps better to post in that forum area where the MacBook experts hang out since this appears to be more of a hardware issue than software.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=249
if you have one on the new aluminum MacBooks.

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