Trackpad cursor clicks somewhere other than where I'm clicking

I have a macbook pro OS X 10.7. About 10% of my trackpad "clicks" end up activating something other than what I'm clicking on. For example, I go to click a link on a webpage, and as I'm depressing the trackpad, the cursor jumps to my iPhoto application icon and activates iPhoto. I then force a quit to stop it. This happens about 10% of all clicks. Very annoying. I've contacted Applecare, they basically say it's one of those computer "glitches", so just live with it. Anyone have a solution?

Do you have another pointing device (tablet, mouse, anything) plugged in at the same time?
Mac OS X uses "all devices active" philosophy. You ARE using any other devices you have plugged in.

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