Severe Trackpad Problems (Mac Pro)

Earlier today (12 hours ago) I spilt about a handful of warm water onto my trackpad. At first I thought it would be okay, but I was wrong. My mouse started spazzing out, and it's almost completely immobilised. I've read other responses to this issue, saying I should remove the back and yada-yada-yada... The problem is, I've left half a day to do this, so I don't know if this will work. Should I still follow this procedure?
Another note is that this has happened before, but my Mac was replaced before I could complain. What happen was that the motherboard failed to respond to my hard drive. Would this be caused by the water that seeped into my Mac? Because I don't want to replace another Mac again.
MacBook Pro 10.7.5

You can install the OS to the SSD when it is connected to one of the 4 SATA II drive bays, then move it to the PCIe card.
You can just clone the OS to the SSD on the PCIe card with Carbon Copy Cloner.
I suggest keeping the original hdd as is. I suggest you clone the system, whether hdd or SSD, regularly.
An SSD is best device for the OS, so use it as such. It just does not need to go on the PCIe card.
And 250GB is cheap $129 today.
I don't know what kind of audio, graphic and other data needs you have but those are great candidates for PCIe SSD, and I would look into the 500GB EVO $239 range, along with one of the affordable $99 PCIe SSD cards to hold one or two SSDs and that offer you the faster speed that it offers.
SATA II maxes out at 250-275MB/sec which is fine for the system
SATA III (PCIe SSDs) offer 500MB/sec or 900MB when using two in a stripe RAID0 set - double the capacity and speed. As I said, great for scratch as you can see, also for Lightroom, iPhoto and/or Aperture as well as for audio libraries and plugins.
AppStore - if you had to buy or acquire it new and were upgrading to it, looks like it is now $19 for those who did not do so earlier.
So yes, just redownload, only this time SAVE the installer application, move it, use Lion DiskMaker or I saw a new Apple support tech article on how to create a (flash or hdd) bootable installer for deploying to multiple Macs and for doing a clean install or reinstall later, so you have a local copy.
CS5 - I assume you know if and how and $$ in support and compatibility with Mavericks and Yosemite.
SSD #A System - SATA II drive bay #0 250-500GB SSD (because CS5 plugins use the boot drive for cache and require 100GB+)
PCIe card SSD - $99
SSD #B (and #C) - Photoshop scratch
Drive bays #1-3 for media, projects, data
Best place for tips on upgrades, performance and configurations:
http://www.macperformanceguide.com
'Real World' Photoshop Benchmark - Speed Test ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... Last Page)

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