MacBookPro cursor/trackpad gone wild?!

I've got an older (2006) MacBookPro (model A1211). It's been a great workhorse machine. Until recently. Suddenly, for no reason I can determine, my cursor jumps all over the page when Im typing. If emails, 5 or 6 new windows will suddenly open, or the cursor backtracks into the text and I end up overwriting previous text, or whole sections will suddenly be highlighted and - if I don't catch it - deleted. I'll type several lines and then "wham" it's all gone and the cursor has returned to the starting point and my text is gone. Or it will jump down into my signature. This happens no matter the program, i.e. email, facebook, MS word - whatever I'm typing in.
The only thing I can correlate this to is pressure around he trackpad. If I type with my wrists arched and my arms above the machine, it seems to work OK. BUT, if I type as normal with my wrists resting on the machine either side of the trackpad it's anyone's guess what will happen. Took it to a local iDoctors and got hit with a $39 "diagnostic fee" and they never even opened the machine up. They just suggested buying a new keyboard for $150.
Anyone else experience this? (Oh, the iDoctor said newer MBP's have adjustable track pads that could solve this but as mine is not adjustable that's why I need a new keyboard?)

Shut down your computer and pull out the battery. Check to see if the battery is swollen. I had a similar issue (cursor selecting items unoontrolably). The battery was slightly swollen which was pushing up on the trackpad thereby engaging the selector.

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