Gestures intermittent in Lion

I have a Unibody MacBook Pro 15" 5,3 Mid 2009 3.06 GHz 8GB RAM.
Using 1Mac OS 0.7 Lion.
Multitouch gestures are working intermittently. Switching between desktops and full screen apps (3 finger left right swipe) and bringing up Mission Control (3 finger up swipe) are giving me problems.
Sometimes these work and sometimes not. They are tending not to work when Mail and Safari are in full screen mode together when I start up the Mac. though this may be coincidental. All other gestures work fine.
Does anyone have similar issues?
Thanks

https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.7_lion

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