HELP! My mac is scrolling left by itself in ANY WINDOW

This problem is driving me crazy and it just started out of nowhere! The problem happens in ANY application including finder windows. Basically the window wants to keep scrolling to the left all by itself. I have tried using a trackpad and a logitech mouse (separate) thinking maybe the mouse is broken. I also tried the bluetooth kepboard and my USB keyboard also with same results (thinking maybe my keyboard was messed up). This thing just wants to go to the left in ANY window no matter what I do.
I even try to use garageband and the stupid thing keeps scrolling to the beginning of the projects. Not only that but in garageband a way to copy a track is to hold down the option button and click and drag the track down. HOWEVER, when I do it, if I hold the option key down and place the cursor over the window, I don't even get a chance to click before the window totally zooms out.....as if I am holding option and ANOTHER BUTTON DOWN (maybe the - since option - is to zoom out)
It's such a bad bug that I tried installing LION on another drive to boot from. Everything was fine. When I imported my preferences from my leopard install, here we go again and the scrolling issue was actually imported into my LION install from my old snow leopard!!!
So what can I do? Is there a way to reset some prefs or something?
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!

Hi. try opening the lid over the fan. Take out the fan an take away all the dust in the cooling ribs. Also take of the lid on the fan and clean inside. Sounds like a overheating problem.
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