Hubby gets annoyed at my tendency to use a wireless mouse with my laptop despite its having a perfectly good touchpad. I loathe touchpads. On the flip side, he insists on leaving my touchpad active even with a mouse connected (my computer also serves as our home media server most of the time, so he uses it some), which annoys the hell out of me when I'm trying to type something on the keyboard and my hand accidentally brushes the touchpad.
I can understand how you feel. It took me a while to be able to used a touch pad effectively, and while I sometimes use a touchpad, it isn't sufficient for working with large chunks of text, which I do frequently. Highlighting, copying, pasting, and other editing tasks really aren't suited to the touchpad. BTW, I have the same touchpad issue with my laptop. It is really annoying to be typing away and suddenly discover you have moved to another part of the document.
Sperran