How to center MBP pointer on startup (relocated)?

Following someone's advice (S.U. wrote: "I have no idea myself, but if you don't get an answer here, you might try your question in the Leopard forum which is where there might be more software experts. Good luck!"), I decided to relocate my previous post on "How to use your MacBook Pro", which goes as follows:
Hi guys (and ladies)!
New on this forum, I confess I didn't have much time to prowl it in search for an answer to the question in the tittle of this post. I apologize for this, but the question itself is pretty straightforward: I'd like my TrackPad pointer to appear in the center of the screen on startup, the way it does on... err, um, you know, the OS from Redmond... You know?
I find it a hassle to have to dislodge it from its upper left corner every time I boot up my MBP, especially considering it takes several attempts to move it, with the Apple menu usually appearing when all I need is to click on a Dock icon...
I read somewhere that an AppleScript could be devised that would remedy to my problem, but I'm not fluent in AppleScript, so if you guys suggest something along this route, please make it understandable for the newbie that I am!
Thanks in advance...
PS: I'm on Tiger, but I gather an AppleScript's an AppleScript, right...?

Hi Didier Calzergues;
I have no ideas of how to solve your problem but I am going to suggest you repost here. Where I am sending you is the Automator section of Tiger since that it the operating system you are using.
Allan

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Bis repetita... How to center the pointer on Tiger's startup...?

Hi all!
This is becoming a gipsy post, since it's the second time around I've had to relocate it... (Smile)
As Alan advised me to ("Hi Didier Calzergues; I have no ideas of how to solve your problem but I am going to suggest you repost here. Where I am sending you is the Automator section of Tiger since that it the operating system you are using. Allan"), I'm relocating my original subject here. Goes like this:
Following someone's advice (S.U. wrote: "I have no idea myself, but if you don't get an answer here, you might try your question in the Leopard forum which is where there might be more software experts. Good luck!"), I decided to relocate my previous post on "How to use your MacBook Pro", which goes as follows:
Hi guys (and ladies)!
New on this forum, I confess I didn't have much time to prowl it in search for an answer to the question in the tittle of this post. I apologize for this, but the question itself is pretty straightforward: I'd like my TrackPad pointer to appear in the center of the screen on startup, the way it does on... err, um, you know, the OS from Redmond... You know?
I find it a hassle to have to dislodge it from its upper left corner every time I boot up my MBP, especially considering it takes several attempts to move it, with the Apple menu usually appearing when all I need is to click on a Dock icon...
I read somewhere that an AppleScript could be devised that would remedy to my problem, but I'm not fluent in AppleScript, so if you guys suggest something along this route, please make it understandable for the newbie that I am!
Thanks in advance...
PS: I'm on Tiger, but I gather an AppleScript's an AppleScript, right...?

An AppleScript is usually an AppleScript, but the AppleScript forum is actually here. Automator is a different animal, with both TIger and Leopard versions (or mutations, depending on your point of view).
Anyway, you can do what you want with some scripting. First, there is the XTools scripting addition, which will give AppleScript the ability to move the mouse. Once the scripting addition is copied to either the /Library/ScriptingAdditions or ~/Library/ScriptingAdditions folders, you can use it's commands. Next, you will need to place a script application into your login items (System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items) that will move the mouse when you log in:
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFEE80;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
do shell script "/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | grep 'Resolution'" -- get info
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How to center the TrackPad pointer on startup

Hi guys (and ladies)!
New on this forum, I confess I didn't have much time to prowl it in search for an answer to the question in the tittle of this post. I apologize for this, but the question itself is pretty straightforward: I'd like my TrackPad pointer to appear in the center of the screen on startup, the way it does on... err, um, you know, the OS from Redmond... You know?
I find it a hassle to have to dislodge it from its upper left corner every time I boot up my MBP, especially considering it takes several attempts to move it, with the Apple menu usually appearing when all I need is to click on a Dock icon...
I read somewhere that an AppleScript could be devised that would remedy to my problem, but I'm not fluent in AppleScript, so if you guys suggest something along this route, please make it understandable for the newbie that I am!
Thanks in advance...

OK, that's one way to put it, but I already have a PC with Windoze installed (I happen to beta-test Seven like a half-dozen billion other people...), so if I wanted to run Windoze, I'd do it on my other computer.
No, seriously, doesn't anyone know of a script that would center the pointer on the screen of my MBP when it boots up? Like giving it new spacial coordinates (e.g. x=720, y=450 for my 1440x900px display)?
OK, I'll make it simple (???): how do you instruct the pointer to act the way I've just described via AppleScript?

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