update from Girl Seeking Geek

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 13:13 -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
> The browser carret thing is because the mouse is producing an F7 signal.
> The track pad is just messed up, possibly due to the wrong drivers.
> Although why Dell would sell an ubuntu laptop with proprietary trackpad
> controllers is anyone's guess.

At the risk of stating the obvious and already-tried, it seems to me
that the Dell Ubuntu support forum would be the best place to look for
answers, in existing questions and answers and/or by asking new ones:

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=342