I hate Ubuntu >:(

Why is my mouse pointer frozen???

My mouse pointer is freezing every few seconds. 

I closed all apps, the CPU is not active, and I didn’t do anything that I know of to trigger this, but it’s still happening.  Great.

Sometimes I’ll move the mouse pointer with the touchpad, and when I stop moving, the mouse keeps going in the same direction, resulting in my clicking the wrong thing.

Sometimes the touchpad scroll inexplicably stops working, so I have to use the arrow keys.

Sometimes the arrow keys inexplicably stop working, so I have to use the touchpad scroll.

After a while, they spontaneously start working again.

Why does the bottom right corner of my touchpad act like a right-click button now?  Why is there no option to change this?  Did this start happening after the upgrade to Karmic?

And why do I need two completely independent and partially redundant apps just to change the settings for my touchpad, anyway?

Why does my computer keep wigging out?  The CPU goes to 100% and the mouse cursor repeatedly changes from arrow to I beam to finger, preventing me from using the mouse for about 5 seconds at a time.