Satellite P100: task bar sometimes shows up an grey square icon

I have a Satellite P100 and the task bar sometimes shows up an icon which I cannot understand. It is a grey square with an horizontal line near the botoom, and seems to represent a computer. Then, over the right bottom side there is a red circle with a red diagonal line across it (in the forward slash direction).
Hovering the mouse over it does not produce any information.
Can you help?

just do this for me please and hit FN+F9 together, that is the key combination for turning the TOUCH PAD off and on, as I've said before it's the only one that I can see that looks like it. Here's a screenshot
http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=greyicontj9.jpg
Is this the icon? If it is then FN+F9 will toggle it on and off, I'm sorry to say this but all the functions are in the manual, both on the computer and the paper one that came with the notebook plus you can go download them from Toshiba's site. I read my manual before I even got my notebook by downloading it first.
If this is switching on and off by itself without you using FN+F9 then it would suggest there is a hardware fault with the touch pad or the drivers are conflicting with something on your system, I would suggest contacting Toshiba Technical Support.
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