Trackpad gestures disappears after waking

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, upon waking from sleep, my Trackpad's gestures, (ie. swiping spaces by dragging 3 fingers across trackpad), disappears. No trackpad gestures work, (ie pinch to zoom, etc.)
After some time, Mountain Lion appears to sleep without reason momentarily, (less than a second) and gestures then return.
Or a restart will restore gestures.

You can start by creating a new user in system preferences>users and groups.
sign into a new user and you are virtually on a clean installation of ML. See if your issue happends in this setting.
You may need to perform a PRAM reset
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
if that doesn't fix it, and a new user does not show the issue, then it is certainly a third party app conflicting with the OS.
if it still happens in a new user, you may need to reinstall ML from the recovery partition>
To get to the recovery partition restart your computer, hold CMD+R down when you hear the boot up chime. Open Disk Utility first (verify your boot disk and repair if needed) and then close it and reinstall ML.

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