"tap to click" resetting after shut down/restart

I've been having trouble more and more frequently with the "tap to click" option - sometimes when I turn my (2.5 year old) MacBook off at night and restart it the next morning, tap to click will be unchecked and I will have to go reset it in System Preferences. Does anyone know how I can stop it from doing this? It didn't concern me before as much when it was only happening rarely, but it's starting to occur more often now.

I have the exact same problem. I thought maybe it was a microsoft entourage issue, but it has been happening whether I have entourage or other microsoft apps installed/running or not. Browsing through activity monitor shows nothing that to me would be suspicious. It doesn't seem to matter whether I have any peripherals attached or not. This problem did not occur when I was using 10.4.11.

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