Track Pad issues with the new MacBook Pros (late 2008)

Update:

Apple has released a trackpad firmware update. It does appear that the missed clicks issue has been resolved after several days of use.

While I find myself pinch/zooming email and web pages less, this remains an issue for when I am dragging/moving the mouse, typically a release the click but thumb still too close to the pad issue.

I find my thumb rests near or on the pad, as I have been used to doing for 7 years of using tibooks and later. What happens while I mouse around is:

• Clicks are missed, because two fingers are down
• The cursor stops moving, because the Mac is confused that I might be meaning to do a scroll
• Safari text zooms in and out, as it implements pinch for page zoom, and if the thumb is anywhere near the pad, it registers as a second finger.

I’d like an option to dedicate a certain portion of the bottom of the pad as a button only.

Udpate:

Removing some input managers helped a little, I thought, but I guess not. I still get thumb/index locks into two finger gestures.

I have determined that the missed clicks are due to the fact that two fingers on the pad + click = right click, and the “missed” clicks are apps ignoring the right click. You can remove this for now by turning off “secondary clicks” in the two button section of the trackpad preferences.