Trackpad Bug in 10.9 (click is delayed, results in strange behavior)

Hi everybody,
Since updating my Macbook (5,1 late 2008, SSD, 8GB-RAM) to 10.9 Mavericks my trackpad behaves buggy in the following way:
When I press down the trackpad with one finger the corresponding "reaction" seems to be delayed (not every but most of the time).
This results in real annoying behavior when you try to select some text with the cursor, or try to move a tab or file etc.
Sometimes, also "tracking" is lost while selecting or drag&drop operation thus resulting in unselected lines of text, or files or tabs lost on drag.
I updated from 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) and the described bug has never occurred before the update.
Is this a known bug? Does Apple work on it for 10.9.1? Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Thanks four your reply.
I already looked at the metalink doc. It lists 4 bugs introduced in 10.2.0.5, but none of them seems related to my problem. Did I overlook something?
Regards,
Henk

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