Trackpad - Dragging issues?

I recently got a new Macbook Pro to replace my month old one that had a dead hard drive (Great service at the Apple store - replaced the whole laptop instead of the drive without me asking).
I got home, updated the laptop to the new OS and with the new Trackpad firmware. For the first couple days things seemed fine. Then I restored my user from the Time Machine backup and noticed something seems funny with the trackpad.
If you click it's fine - tracking is fine. But holding to drag or select text has things going nuts. Most of the time if you are selecting a large area of text, you click and it starts to select and then it "forgets" as if you stopped clicking. If you press harder on the pad it may resume. Or it will get all confused and you have to stop clicking for a couple seconds and then drag again and things will be OK.
Is this my machine, a problem with the new OS, or what?

Don't know if this is the issue, but what machine did you originally do the Time Machine backup from? If it was originally done from a pre-unibody model, then I believe the trackpad software is different because the older trackpad had a separate trackpad and mouse button, and the new one has a combined trackpad and mouse button. I'm thinking if the older version of the trackpad software was somehow restored with time machine, it might be causing problems.
Unfortunately, I don't know what to do to fix the problem, but my guess is that you're dealing with a software problem rather than a hardware problem.
Good luck!

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I talked to someone at Apple store, and he recommended replacing my trackpad, which will cost around $140... Do I really have to replace the trackpad?
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