My Mac Air is driving me insane.

Everytime I scroll over files and pages, little pop up boxes appear and then the files are moved and the page itself doesn't scroll. When I try to move boxes around, the cursor doesn't drop them no matter how many times i right click. When I try to open files, it takes about 15 double clicks to open. If I scroll over my desktop, little boxes appear everywhere and instead of opening icons, it tries to move them. If I try to cut and paste, it tries to do it for everything i scroll over afterwards, moving words and files all over the place. My **** computer is really starting to P*** me off. Any help on how to sort this crises with the cursor? Even now, I'm trying to hit the "post message" button below and it's not working. Gah!                   

I would suggest checking your trackpad settings.  Are they set up to operate they way you want them to?

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