Satellite P300-23V - Marker is suddenly jumping

I have a SATELLITE P300-23V with Windows 7 Home Pemium.
I have an irritating problem.
When I write a dokument in Word or writing a mail in Hotmail the maker is suddenly hopping to another place during the writing. When you're looking at the keyboard while writing and then look up at the text the marker has moved to another place and the wrtitng continues from there. Very frustrating.
I have now looked very closely at the text while writing and as I said the marker suudenly, without any reason, hopps to another location while writing.
Have anybody else experienced this problem and can anything be done to cure this?
Is it a hardware problem or software?

Hey,
I had the same problem on my Satellite P500. Due writing something I always touched the touchpad and so the cursor jumped to another place.
There its not necessary to disable the whole touchpad, just disable the tapping function in touchpad driver options. After this you have to use touchpad buttons to make a left click.
You can find this option in control panel > Mouse.
Check this!!!

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