Touch Pad Sensitivity

Hi All,
How do I lower the sensitivity of the touch pad on my PowerBook G4? I'm running MacOS 10.4.11 on a 1 GHz PowerPC laptop with 512 MB of RAM & 80 GB of hard disk. The cache is 512 KB & Buss speed is 133 MHz. I presume there is some file I can set in the UNIX part of MacOS using Terminal.
Anyone done some tweaking to the touch pad? It's much too sensitive for this 12 inch laptop. When I'm typing the cursor is always grabbed and sent flying across the document I'm typing. Then I have to stop, hit "Undo Typing" under the "Edit" menu to restore the cursor back to the location it left from. Thanks for your help.
Best,
Don
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Hi-
Welcome to Discussion!
I think that you will be better off posting this topic in the Powerbook forums.
This is the Power Mac tower forum.

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