Jumpy Keyboard / Cursor ?

So I received my CookBook pro just over a week ago, and so far am pretty happy with it. (It gets warm, but not so hot I can't pick it up. It does get uncomfortable on my lap, however.)
This is both my first Mac and my first "laptop".
I do a lot of coding for the web: Mostly PHP with HTML, and trying out different text editors. Right now I'm using Subethaedit, which I like a lot.
Anyway, sometimes when I'm typing, the cursor will jump up a number of lines. It will type everything I've entered, but just not where I intended it. So then I have to cut and paste back to where I was working.
Is this common among laptop keyboards? I would ask whether or not it's a case of sensitivity, but sometimes I stop to type characters One At A Time, nice & slowly, and it still hops.
Does anyone know why? I can type upwards of 60+ WPM, and having a jumping cursor is no good. Could it possibly be some "combination of keys" is a shortcut to "go up X lines"?
Thanks for your time.

In system preferences under mouse/keyboard under trackpad settings make sure that you have selected ignore accidental trackpad input.
Intead of Subethaedit I use BBedit which costs a couple bucks but is worth it in my opinion. You should check it out. It has a lot of integrated features (like subversion support) and is a really mature product.

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