Touch screen ghost clicks

Hello,
I have a Touchsmart notebook that seems to have  a mind of it own. Occasionally, once in 2 weeks almost, the touch screen picks a spot ( the same spot ) and keeps selecting it every 5-10 seconds.
When this happen you cannot navigate or even shutdown the computer since the cursor keeps going back to that spot on the screen.
When I contacted HP support they asked me to calibrate the screen, which stopped it for few mins and then it came back. A restart following that bought be another 2 weeks of trouble free working.
Now it is a standard fix, when the ghost clicks start, I calibrate the screen (hard to do with clicking between ghost clicks), then quickly save everything before the problem starts again and restart.
Is this a faulty screen, do I have to send it in? I hate sending in my computer, for one, it leaves you computerless for 10 days and then you have to remove all your personal files and passwords and reload it again.
What is worse, is that the problem is so random that its hard to reproduce the symptoms or check if it has been fixed.
Any help would be greeeeeeeeeeatly appreciated.
Thanks.
PS: Was running Windows 8 and now 8.1. Problems then and now.

Hi anoopkmer,
Sorry to hear about the problem with the ghost clicks. What is your product number? This link will show you how to find that.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&​lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c00033108
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