Multi-touch unintentional clicks in 10.6.7

My wife's Multi-touch pad seems to behave as if it is stuck in "click" mode, constantly selecting text and dragging objects so as to make the trackpad completely unusable. This only started to happen over the past few days, and she cannot remember if it was before or after a recent software update this week. She is currently at 10.6.7, which I believe came out several weeks ago. I have seen this problem described elsewhere, and a fix was issued here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4321 ...but 10.6.5 was supposed to have included the fix.
We have plugged in a mouse as a workaround but she is about to go out of town and needs to get work done on a long flight where a plug in mouse doesn't really cut it, so any suggestions to fix it would be greatly appreciated. Disable one finger dragging is already clicked, by the way.

sig - I don't understand your comment. The trackpad is what is broken.
Linc - So she is at the airport now and her laptop all of a sudden won't charge, so that could very well be it. Thanks for the link, Linc. Sounds like it's time for a trip to the Apple Store - She is flying to Seattle so I made an appointment at the genius bar for when she lands.

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A Chrome extension is out which enable Bootcampers to swipe back/forth with two fingers for pages. You can get it here:
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