Mouse/keyboard issues

my macbook keyboard has started behaving very erratically, it drags items without clicking on them, sometimes when typing, the icon jumps so i end up typing in the middle of a word ive already typed, it selects items randomly,
ive done a full restore which didnt help, and downloaded clamXav to see if there was a bug, but nothing,
please note im not to computer/mac literate!!!! 
any help please

Yikes.....last couple things to try....
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964   SMC reset....
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1895     PRAM reset....
Since you had already done a clean install and now Safe Mode...New User Account...etc....I would tend to lean towards a hardware problem of some kind.....try the Apple Hardware Test (AHT)...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
...run it a few times and use the extended set of tests....sometimes issues are intermittent (as you know)....
....don't know what else to suggest after this....

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