Multitouch Trackpad, Windows XP and spurious selections

I've got a MBP unibody, 15", running Windows XP in Bootcamp. I've updated to the most recent Multitouch trackpad driver. What I'm seeing is if I swipe across the trackpad rather quickly and raise my finger during the swipe (the finger doesn't come to a stop before lifting off the trackpad) if the cursor ends up on a selectable item (a link, an icon, etc.) then that item is erroneously "clicked" (though there was no click involved). Thus, quickly tracking over a web page might end up clicking a link even though I was only sliding my finger. Or, if I've got a window selected and I swipe all the way to the edge of the screen, the cursor stops at the edge of the screen but then inserts a click right there, effectively deselecting the window. I've not seen this reported anywhere and wondering if anyone has seen this phenomenon. It's easily reproducible on my machine.
Thanks.

I don't have a fix, but I have called Apple about this problem.
They have a bad response to it too. Out of the 10 people I've talked to, 9 of them blame Windows for my problems and refer me to Microsoft to get an adequate driver for the APPLE trackpad.
Sorry I can't help, but Apple can't help me and I'm left with an expensive and useless laptop for college since I cannot even use the trackpad in Windows for some of my college engineering programs.

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