Track pad on MacBook Pro 15"

The track pad on my MacBook Pro 15" (Late 2009) when trying to drag and drop files stays continously selected and never lets me drop them into the new folder.  This all started happening after install of the OS X Mountain Lion. 
I have already tried the universal access route by enabling dragging but it doesn't seem the same way as it used to be.  Because even with that then when I select words while typing, it like locks and drags and messes that up, and if I do it without drag lock then it goes back to not working at all, and stays continsouly selected.
Also have tried Disk Repair Permissions.
Is there a patch out to fix this, or another way to fix this?

Try SMC and PRAM resets:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
Ciao.

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