Touch Pad refuses to disable

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I am really at the end of my rope. I have tried about everything to disable
my touchpad on a Compaq 6820s   I am running Ubunut 9.10 and it is
completely updated.  I have the touch pad preference set without enable
touchpad.  However, when I launch any application (Firefox, Evolution,
UbuntuOne it re-enables.

I have used this laptop since 8.04 without a lick of trouble with the touch
pad.    I dual booted another Linux brand and the touch pad behaves well.

What would you suggest besides going back to another version.
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