Overly sensitive touch pad

My iBook is coming up on 3 years old. The past several days Iv noticed that my touch pad is becoming smoother and smoother. It's also become very sensitive to any movement. One small touch and it's toally across the page. Iv used a number of things to clean it off, but it's not helping much. It remains sensitive. Is there a normal life span for the touch before it needs to be replaced? Or is this just an individual problem? No idea is it's a simple item to replace. Any one have any hints?

There is a document about touchy or erratic trackpad operation:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=17228
At some point in the past, there also was a way you could try
and reset the trackpad by holding your palm over the entire
pad surface, for about a minute, then pull it away in one motion.
Not sure how that was supposed to work, but I tried it on an iBook
G3 dualUSB model and it seemed to make the trackpad less
touchy at the time. I have not had a need to do these things with
my newer mid-2005 iBookG4 1.33 12" machine, so far it just works.
Hopefully the part won't need replacing; that can be a service job.
General iBook support:
http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/
Good luck in this, and happy computing!

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