Mail and Touch Pad problems

Didn't know where to put this so I put in Leopard and Mail...
I'm using a MacBook Air running 10.5.3 and a friend of mine is using a Powerbook 1.5 GH running 10.4.latest. The mbAir track pad is set up as: Tap to Click, Dragging, Two Finger > Secondary Click, Scroll (Pinch open & close Rotate), Screen Zoom, 3 fingers > Swipe to Navigate. The powerbook is very similar but since it doesn't have the iPhone type touch pad like the Air, it's not quite the same set up.
We were talking the other day and realized that we are having the same problem: whenever we are in Mac's Mail program and we are typing, all of a sudden we find ourselves on another line somewhere in the text that we have just written. Some of the text that was just type may have also been deleted. We both find that we can't figure out how it is happening.
The only thing I know is she (with the Powerbook) didn't have this problem until I turned on some of the other features of the touch pad, such as Tap to Click and Secondary Click, etc..
Has anyone had this happen to them?
Does anyone have any idea what is happening?
Any ideas are appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim

Yes, I am having this problem. Here's more detail:
In Mail:
I can type into Mail's To: (or CC: or BCC:) field one address that is in the address book; the auto-complete works, and when I press Return or comma to auto-complete and start entering another recipient, everything I type thereafter is cumulatively reproduced. It looks like this, for example:
(Babbette Duck)MMaMarMarkMarkSMarkScMarkScuMarkScupMarkScuppMarkScuppeMarkScupper (...etc.)
The name above in parens ( ) represents the successfully entered e-mail address. Everything after it is what happens (I selected and pasted it right from Mail) when I then try to type another name. As I type letters, something takes each letter I type, repeats it and every subsequent letter I've typed, and adds the new letter I type. Every character key, plus Delete, Return, and Shift, and the arrow keys, results in the reentering of the previous typing as illustrated above. Only the modifier keys Control, Option, and Command, the F keys, and the sound volume keys, are unaffected (and modifier+character combinations).
Trying to edit a name in Address Book (which I hadn't done before reading your post) results in the same phenomenon.
Then there's a weird thing: If I then select all the text in the To: field, using either mouse or Command-A, and delete using the 2nd-row Delete key, everything is deleted BUT then the name I was trying to type in appears, correctly typed. So somehow it is registering correctly, but it's as if the system is, after one entry in the To: field or any typing into an Address edit field, using any subsequent keys as select/copy/paste of everything that is typed before it.
And Console is now showing anything at all, let alone an error.
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