Poor trackpad response

Over the past week or two my trackpad has become almost completely non-responsive. To scroll through a list I have to constantly swipe across it and then it will scroll one or two items at a time, if at all. I've played with the sensitivity settings but that has little if any effect. I saw another post that indicated a piece of tissue between your finger and the trackpad will "fix" it. It does, and if I have a bandaid on (for what it's worth a cloth one not a plastic one) the trackpad performs beautifully. Excellent response and very precise control. Obviously neither is an acceptable solution.
I don't know if this is related or not, but at the same time, the BlackBerry button (to the left of the trackpad) has been troublesome as well. I have to click it several times to get the menu to pop up.
Any suggestions? Is this just a wear and tear issue and I need to get a new phone?

If that's the case, you should return the phone to your carrier for a replacement. This is assuming that it's newer than one year old. If you choose to do so, make sure you do a data backup with BlackBerry Desktop Software first. If it's older than one year, wearing cloth bandages might be the answer.
Please keep us posted.
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Hi, asodesume -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
You might get a better hardware-specific response if you repost your issue in the appropriate PowerBook forum; you can access those here -
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=120
The top area of that page includes links to the various PowerBook forums, grouped by model series. Pick the most appropriate and once you enter that forum you can post a new topic.
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Even with today's "Apple Keyboard Update 1.0", they didn't update the Trackpad driver, which is a huge problem for me.
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