MBP froze, then trackpad inverted

Hi,
I've got a mid 2007 MBP, 2.2GHz, 2GB ram, running 10.4.11.
I just had a seriously weird and scary incident. I was just browsing the net, having woken the computer from sleep after a short walk to school. After about 2 minutes worth of browsing, the computer totally froze, with no response from anything, track pad or keyboard, no force quit, no mouse movement at all. I gave it some time to gather it's thoughts, see if it would come out of this, and then after about 30 seconds, the trackpad starts responding, except backwards and in big jumps.
So the trackpad was inverted, meaning if I moved my finger down, the mouse on the screen moves up. By "big jumps" i mean I'd move my finger just a little, and the mouse would jump about inch or two across the screen. THis went on for about 10 seconds before it froze again, and i just forced the computer off by holding the power button.
Lately I've noticed I've had many many page outs, despite 2GB of ram. Just approximately, it'd be something like 200,000 page ins and 150,000 page outs after a day or two of uptime. I don't know if this could be related.
Unfortunately, I let my last chance to buy applecare slip by me while I was in Europe this summer, so this computer is no longer covered under warranty (been kicking myself in the pants ever since, I simply forgot when i bought the computer and thought it had been later on!)
Thanks for any help or suggestions!
Jeff

thanks for the response. I'll try a disk repair, and if that doesn't work, i'll just reformat, i've got everything backed up pretty much.
I'm surprised about the RAM though... just a year or two ago, 2GB was a lot of ram, and it's not like I'm doing anything more than I used to. Mail, Safari, iTunes, Word and Powerpoint, sometimes iPhoto, and more rarely, Matlab and Labview... but I see a lot of pageouts even before I start using those last two programs. They keep finding ways to make us need more ram and newer computers just to do the same stuff!

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