Trackpad not dragging, showing dock or hot corners

I've seen a repeated issue with my month old MacBook Pro. The trackpad seams to loose some functionality: the dock stops appearing when I move to the bottom of the screen, hot corners don't react and I am not able to drag or use dropdown menus. The odd thing is that all of these features still work if it use my wacom or mouse. A restart will fix the issue, but will breaks again within a day.
I am using a wacom graphire 3, VMware, connect to a projector frequently.

Also, this black bar shows up towards the bottom of the screen on the left side when it's on the apple loading screen. Not sure what it is...and yes I have also run system updates.

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my macbook pro started acting strange after a safari reset.
the mouse no longer: animates the dock, activates hot corners or selects pages from safari 'top sites' (without a hassle). attempts to reset dock and hot corners from preferences has been fruitless
the mouse also gets 'stuck' in logic precipitating force quits.
i run osX 10.6.8 on a 2007 macbook pro that has had 2 motherboards replaced autumn 2010.
my troubleshooting has been: restart, pRam and safe boot, also checking a 'test' account to find the same issues extant.
pRam restart caused airport to quit and say there is no airport card, and wouldn't respond untill another reboot.
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i have treated this book with care, yet run logic pro studio to the limit of this book's abilities.
what shoud i do?

You don't say which year you have, however...
...there are known problems with the mid-2010 models (see http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4088?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US) as well as early and late 15" 2011 models (see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4766577?tstart=0).
Apple has taken ownership of the problems with the 2010 model but, unfortunately, the free logic board replacement for that model has probably long expired for you - three years after date of purchase.
One the 2011 models Apple has admitted no defect. You'll just have to skim the articles to get an overview of the problems that people are having (usually showing up as screen glitches at first and then going downhill from there).
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Clinton

Dock, Expose, Hot Corners etc. don't work anymore! Solutions?

Two days ago I decided to restart my Macbook. When the screen popped up it gave me the option of "Reopen windows when logging back in". I never noticed this before switching from Snow Leopard to Lion but maybe it's always been there. Anyways, as you know it is checked by default so I unchecked it just out of curiosity and restarted my system.
When the system came back on, my desktop background had vanished, hot corners will not work, dock does not show up, and when I try to change any of these preferences they do not take. (i.e.-changing orientation of the dock from bottom to left, it simply won't let me select left) I can only open applications from spotlight, and when I mouse over an item now it turns the font white, which never happened before since I did not have it set like that. In addition, google chrome and safari both crash quite frequently since these mess-ups, and so I have resorted to doing all of my work from Firefox.
I've read in these forums as well as other place on the web about this problem happening, but I have tried all of the remedies to no avail. In the past, the problem for users was a lot of the time caused by the use of a wireless mouse. However, I have never used a wireless mouse so this can't be the problem. I also went in to disk utilities and ran a repair, thinking maybe something might click but nothing did. I have restarted/shut down many times just to see if the problem has fixed itself, which it hasn't yet. I've gone into Activity Monitor and relaunched Finder several times, and also noticed that Report Crash is working super hard on the system for some reason. (Maybe because of many of my programs freezing and crashing?) I also deleted many recent downloads, since I had one or two unfinished downloads and this had been the problem for one user inparticular...I did a "Secure Empty Trash" from the finder menu for these items. I also ran CleanMyMac and uninstalled a couple of applications that I don't use just for good measure...still NOTHING.
I'm in no way an expert with computers, I just own a macbook and it's having problems. If you guys could lend your expertise as a last ditch effort that'd be great. I'd prefer not to take it to GeekSquad, Apple Store, or a repair shop because I'm a college student and I'm literally broke at the moment, so any remedies or ideas would take weight off of my chest.
Thanks in advance-Jameson

Also, this black bar shows up towards the bottom of the screen on the left side when it's on the apple loading screen. Not sure what it is...and yes I have also run system updates.

Trackpad not drag and dropping well...

When I try to move something such as a file or a tab from a browser window or anything for that matter the trackpad gives me problems. I haven't had a issue until I just updated to Mountain Lion yesterday. When I try to drag & drop something (or highlight something) my cursor acts as though I have let go on the trackpad and the action I am trying to do stops...so I have to repeatedly drag & drop until I am able to move something or highlight text...it is soooo annoying! Please someone have a solution.
-Thank you.
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Processor 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB

My issue started in December 2012 with the Update that down loaded on the first of December 2012. Please suggest options or put back the tap drag to highlight then drag & drop. I really used this gesture a lot and miss it.

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There are several fairly specialized posts in these forums about hot corners, but my problem is a very simple one: whereas I can use hot corners to control windows, etc., I cannot make them work to turn the screensaver on or off. In the Leopard forum, there is a reference to an article in MaxFixIt, but it is only accessible by MacFixIt Pro subscribers (amongst whom I am not numbered). Were it not for the fact that hot corners seem to work for me as far as Exposé is concerned, I might have guessed that my problem is caused by the fact that the eMac has a CRT display and not a LED one. But the hot corners do work for Exposé, so that cannot be the answer. I trust someone will be able to find the correct answer and tell me how to make them work for the screensaver.

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Dock hiding and hot corners no longer work

I am not sure exactly when it began, but for the past 2-4 weeks, my hot corners and dock hiding have been very erratic. At seemingly random times, all the sudden my hot corners stop being active, so when I move my pointer to the corner, the designated task whether it be dashboard, Expose, screen saver, etc. as selected in preferences no longer activates. Dock hiding stops working as well. The dock hides, but when I move my cursor over where the dock is parked it doesn't appear, it stays hidden. I can click command alt d and the dock will appear or disappear, but will not appear by just moving the cursor to the side of the screen where the dock is parked. I have not added any new software lately other than Apple OS 10.6.4 and whatever Safari, iTunes etc updates that keep coming at along at pretty regular intervals. Interestingly I have an iMac at work and at home, and they both are misbehaving in the same way. They are similarly populated with software, although not exactly. When I update one, I update the other. Both started misbehaving at about the same time.
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OK, let's try some troubleshooting steps to solve your Exposé problem (that's the name of the OS X feature that, among other things, provides the "hot-corners" functionality).
(1) Please note that some Dashboard widgets have been reported to exhibit incompatibilities with Exposé. You may want to check on this — and update to later versions or disable any suspect Widgets.
(2) When you have "a lot of things like this" that aren't working as expected, it's usually very helpful to isolate what may be vs. what definitely isn't contributing to the behavior(s). One way to do this is to set up a temporary "test" user account with administrative privileges. (As always, be sure to remember the password!) Then log-in as this user, and take whatever steps are necessary to determine whether the problematic behavior(s) persist. If they do, the problem is "systemic" ; is they go away, the problem is apparently restricted to your user account. Apple's KnowledgeBase Article 25398 — Mac OS X: How to troubleshoot a software issue (also linked above) explains troubleshooting steps to take from there.
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Please note that this will refresh all the associated preferences to their original, "default" values — so you will have to reconfigure your Dock & Exposé preferences. (You may want to take a screenshot of the Dock's current configuration first.)
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@sanjampet
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Trackpad not dragging, showing dock or hot corners

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