X230: Pointer jumps away when lifting finger from touchpad

Guys I'm having this issue with my touchpad, when I slide towards a button on the screen and lift my finger up to hit the click button, in most of the cases I mis-click because it seems the pointer jumps away when I lift my finger. This is very irritating.
This was default with clean install Windows 7. So I installed the drivers i.e. UltraNav, but that made things worse! Now it seems like the resolution has dropped and the mouse cursor is twitchy. I played with the UltraNav settings, made things a bit better, but yet still worse than the default configuration I had with Windows 7. Oh yeah, the jumpiness of the cursor remained after lifting finger from touchpad. So I removed those drivers again...
What to do now? Seems like a software issue, but that jumping drives me nuts.......

I find that touchpad is most usable with latest ultranav drivers, medium senisitivity and whatever 2finger gesture things you like.
In Windows settings have enhanced pointer precision checked (important) and mid-high pointer speed.
Still though, it feels horrible to use

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