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I bought an HP DV3500 laptop late last fall. This is a model HP custom made for Best Buy. Running Wndows Home Premium 64. I have a very strange problem with the touchpad. When I close the clamshell and put it to sleep, it ofter wakes up in a state where the touchpad does bizarre things. It won't select applications on the task bar. When IE goes to Work Offline mode, the dialog box that pops up won't select -- exactly 3 times. On the 3rd try it always selects and then IE goes back online. The driver on my computer is newer than the driver HP offers online -- scary. I have found that if I use Task Manager to kill and restart explorer.exe the problem goes away. I'm not able to find any information online about this problem. Any searches I do for ALPS are complicated by a certain mountain range. This is pretty low-volume computer and this is a very obscure problem so I know this is a long shot, but if anyone has any theories I'd be curious. /rich