Input related random inputs and out of order events

Hi My wife has a Mac Air 4,2
It has been flawless and in good working order, with minimal applications.
All was well until 20th Sept. Immediatly after a system update to 10.7.4  the trackpad began to show strange drag and click problems .. as if the touch pad had become hypersensitive.
This resulted in unable to click, unable to move , drag select always activated.
I managed with alot of patience to disable all the optional trackpad settings for point & click, Scroll & zoom and More Gestures.... but where did more gestures come from ... is that new?
anyway ... the problem was partially solved, the track pad is now usable but still has issues.
so i moved on to physical and noticed that the edges were dirty and the surface i cleaned with a screen wipe and clicked and blew on the trackpad to free any scum trapped on the edges. 
I noticed that some of the surface is very polished and, those areas are marginly more senitive than the rougher areas.
a week on I just logged in to another profile and got hit with the same issues ... and a new one ... keyboard input after rebooting: where is it! i had to wait 5 mins for input to come online. 
This got me thinking. The problem is not 100% the trackpad, its the signal processing for realtime inputs from the keyboard and trackpad. either there has been a kernal tweak or the driver for the devices is sending too much data resulting in buffering issues. or more likly some kind of out of order buffer processing that is FUBAR'd.
SO i check for an update: 10.7.5 securty update ... installed ... reboot ... at least I get keyboard input this time ... but the trackpad is still misbehaving... what should i do next:
a) Is there a frimware update for the trackpad?
b) Can I disable the new trackpad functionality completely... I dont actually want or need it
c) Wait for the apple team to make further fixes to the kernel and drivers for touch input.
d) go get an apple engineer to do something with the trackpad.... I have 2 weeks left of warrenty.

thats too bad.  do you have a question you would like to ask

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