Disable track pad/mouse?

I have one of the first gen macbooks. It has probably 100K miles plus on it. Needless to say it's seen better days. The track pad/enter bar is not working properly. It works fine with an external mouse. i would like to disable the track pad and the enter pad. Is there a way to do this with preferences?
Thanx

In Universal Access preferences click on the Mouse and Trackpad tab. There are a couple of checkboxes near the bottom to disable the trackpad when using a mouse. If you don't find it there then the option should be either in Mouse or Trackpad preferences.

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