Macbook 1.1 trackpad/clicker disabled by beta 12 os 10.5.8

simple--trackpad/clicker has gone wild. clicks when it shouldnt and does when it shouldnt. works fine with safari 5.0.6 i have deleted, highlighted, dragged, downloaded, and just plain screwed up to hell and back 50 times a day for untold weeks plus reset every preference over and over till im ready to never get near ff again. if someone at ff had just been a little clearer about the extent of the trackpad issues...

Define "access the cloud". I can access my iCloud.com account on my 5 year old iMac at work running OS X 10.4.11 Tiger. I can download and upload Word documents and Pages documents in the iWorks section of my iCloud.com account.
What do you want to access in "the cloud"?
Snow Leopard would be your next system upgrade and you should be OK with the CS3 applications, and Office 2008. I cannot confirm that the other applications will work.
This is quite old, but take a look or Google the other applications to see if they are compatible with SL.
http://www.macintouch.com/specialreports/snowleopard/slcompat.html

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