MSI GX60 Touchpad problems

Hey guys, I purchased my GX60 A10(Not Hitman) over a month ago now. I can't say I've used the Touchpad very often, but I can confirm that it HAS worked before. But a few days ago I tried using it, and it would be extremely unresponsive. My cursor would move all over the place or not move at all, and I somehow kept closing my browser window on accident. I would move my finger down the pad, and it would do a right click, or start highlighting. All in all, it was just unusable.
So I did a little search, and found that MSI had new Synaptics Touchpad Drivers. I downloaded and installed them, but that didn't do anything. In fact, the Touchpad wasn't working at all after the reboot. I would also get an error when clicking on Mouse in the control panel. I tried reinstalling/uninstalling the drivers, to no avail. The installation would actually fail thereafter, although the Synaptics software would appear in my installed programs.
I went in Device Manager. I found the pointing device that wasn't my USB Mouse, and tried updating the drivers(directing it to the Synaptics folder), and upon doing that, I noticed that the name of the device finally changed to Touchpad, although windows gave me an error saying the device could not be used because it couldnt find a file of some sort. So I tried uninstalling the device, but now windows doesn't even detect anything new when scanning for new hardware. I tried removing my battery, but that didn't help.
So now, my Touchpad still isn't working(buttons aren't working either), and there is no new device appearing in Device Manager. Oddly enough, when I install the Synaptics drivers now, it actually tells me the drivers were installed successfully, although the Synaptics software doesn't even show in my programs.

Sounds to me like a faulty touchpad.
>>How to contact MSI.<<
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