How do I disable pinch zoom?

I just bought a 17" MacBook Pro Unibody, I was very happy with it at first. Unfortunately whenever I use Safari the trackpad thinks I am trying to zoom in on the page, but I am not. How do I turn this off, in the control panel it just shows a video of how to do it. I have watched myself use the trackpad and I am not pinching the trackpad, I am trying to scroll down but instead it zooms, all the time. Is there anyway to turn this off, if not I'm just going to return this computer, it's very irritating.

get the program: MultiClutch (free, but please donate as it really takes care of some serious issues).
With multiclutch you can add safari and reconfigure the pinch zoom shortcut to something irrelevant like Shift + alt + cmd + ^ and that will disable the accidental pinch zoom.
Also there is a plugin for Photoshop that disables accidental rotating! Again free, from Adobe.
Now all I need is the option to ignore if I rest my thumb on the trackpad where there used to be a click-area on previous MBP's...

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