Touchpad stops working on X201 (and other models)

I have an X201 and noticed tha tthe toucpad stops working at seemingly random intervals. After tracking down the culprit to the Synaptic Touchpad Enhancements process, I did a search and found other people having the issue in the Thinkpad W series forum. Instead of reposting it here, you can find my reply with an easy workaround to get it working again over in this thread.
http://forum.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W150-Touchpad-stops-working-after-a-certain-tim...
Somebody thinks the problem only happens with Firefox, which I happen to use as well, so the problem could be between Firefox and the Synaptics process.
Lenovo: Please fix this. Thank you.

Hi All,
I've posted a temporary workaround regarding this issue, you may read it here.
In another note, this issue is currently being investigated by the engineering team.
//JameZ
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