Major Trackpad Problems

Hi
About a month ago my trackpad started lagging. It would freeze up but if didn't touch the trackpad for about 3 or 4 seconds it would go back to normal. This past week though the problem has become much much worse- my mouse will freeze regularly (think every 30 seconds or so) and whatever program i'm in will only scroll up and down (with one finger only- it ignores two fingers) if it responds to trackpad movement at all.
I read a bunch of discussions and tried unchecking "ignore accidental trackpad movement" and that helped for about five minutes.
One really strange thing- the far right side of the trackpad responds completely normally, however this area of responding is only about half a finger width so it makes it very difficult to move the cursor side to side this way.
I've had my computer since June and it's worked great until recently.... I'm going to take it into the store as soon as I get home (I'm at college) next week, but until then, is there anything I can do?? Has anyone else had this happen to them??
Thanks :/
Macbook- 512 MB 667 MHz 2GHZ intel core duo   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  
Macbook- white    

Ok.  I think I got it.
I reset the NVRAM.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

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