Satellite A660 - touchpad is too sensitiv

I'm having trouble getting use to the touchpad. Compared to my previous two laptops, this one seems hypersensitive at times, and irresponsive at others.
It hasn't helped to change the sensitivity, palm touch checking, or virtual scroll regions.
I'm wondering if it's just me, or do others find this to be the case?

Please excuse my change of identity. It seems that every time I start a thread, my user name ceases to be recognized.
The title of this thread is changed from the title that I provided so that it no longer reflects the problem. As I described, the touchpad seems hypersensitive at times, and irresponsive at others. I have changed the title back and I hope that it can be left that way.
In the past decade, I've owned two previous laptops, and used many others. They all used Synaptics drivers, and I could always adjust the sensitivity, palm checking, and virtual scroll regions to make it respond well. In this particular case, not so much. My left palm can be millimeters away from the surface of the touchpad, but it will still register as a contact. In other instances, I can be trying to move up two or three times before the pointer responds (or before virtual scrolling occurs). When that happens regularly, one begins to lose train of thought. I can be extremely frustrating, and I wondered with it was endemic to the design or just my particular machine.

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