Disable track pad rotate??

Is it possible to disable the tackpad two finger "rotate?" I was told in the Apple store that I could slow it down by changing the preferences for scrolling, but I don't want to slow down scrolling. I find the two finger twist unprecise and it screws up a lot of my image work, especially when I hadn't planned to rotate in the first place! Is there an update software fix in the works? I'm desparate. I have been using Macs ever since the 2E, but never have found such an anomaly. Other than the rotate snafu, my Macbook Pro is the most wonderful Mac I have ever owned.

At the moment I am not on my MBP I am using a PowerBook G4 with 10.4.11 so I can't be as precise from memory. Did you go into the System Preferences >> Keyboard & Mouse/Trackpad settings? I know you can disable some of the trackpad settings.

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