How does one prevent cursor from jumping to previous words, deleting words?

A question for my daughter who has a macbook pro with an intel chip using system 10.4.11. On several different programs,e.g. word, gmail, her cursor arrow jumps from the word she is on, backwards, to the previous words, deleting words, phrases, and sentences along the way. What may be the cause? How may we prevent this? Thank you.

Has ANYONE found a solution to this???? My MacBook Pro (purchased Sept 08) doesn't have the ignore accidental trackpad thing. I seriously doubt that it's my typing, since I've used 2 different IBM's, 3 different Gateways, 3 different PowerBooks, a MacBook, and an older MacBook Pro. No problem ever with any of them. Not even once.
If I turn off the Tap to Click (and the two finger right mouse is REALLY HARD to give up) the problem goes away. Several threads give this as the solution. Just turn the trackpad tap on and off. This is a workaround NOT A SOLUTION!!!!!
I've been reading on this for quite a while. "Genius" solutions like reinstalling the OS, etc. Not found one that actually works.
Did I miss it???? Is it out there somewhere????

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