Have to click multiple times on my trackpad

This is my school laptop that I use every year since last year. I had a few problems last year with this laptop but they were enventually fixed. This year my computer was fine until one day I couldn't open my folders on my desktop as easily. I used to just double click very easily and they would open. Now I have to click on each folder 5-6 times before it opens. I restarted my computer about 3 times yesterday and nothing helped. Hopefully someone can help me with this problem because I'm really not in the mood to get my computer re imaged.

My first thought is that the trackpad needs to be adjusted or that it needs to be replaced. Adjustment can be done quickly at the genius bar, replacement takes a couple days. Open System Preferences and select the trackpad. The first option you see should be 'tap to click' which will let you simply tab the trackpad to simulate a click. If that works you can be pretty certain it is mechanical and requires a trip to an Apple store.

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There seems to be a strange difference in how the default button behaves in JRE 1.4.X versus 1.3.X.
In 1.3.X, when the enter key was pressed, the default button would be "pressed down" when the key was pressed, but wouldn't be fully clicked until the enter key was released. This means that only one event would be fired, even if the enter key was held down for a long time.
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Consider the following code (which is just a dialog with a button on it):
public class SimpleDialog extends JDialog implements java.awt.event.ActionListener
private JButton jButton1 = new JButton("button");
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this.pack();
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I think I have found a solution. The behaviour of the how the default button is triggered is contained withing the RootPaneUI. So, if I override the default RootPaneUI used by the UIDefaults with my own RootPaneUI, I can define that behaviour for myself.
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