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I ran into a person in research at IBM and asked about the wandering trackpoint problem. He explained that if your finger is on the device when it recalibrates (which is, as I recall, every 2 minutes, or so) the program will read the existing pressure as zero and recalibrate accordingly. From that point until the next recalibration you will have to "fight" the device. And if you keep fighting the device for another two minutes, the problem will get worse. The best solution, I was told, is to avoid using the Trackpoint for two minutes as soon as it happens. This has largely resolved my problem -- which is not to say that this is the only possible problem, or the only solution. I do, however, think that this feature of the Trackpoint makes it less desirable as a full substitute for the mouse. There is always a chance that you will be exerting pressure on it at the moment of recalibration, thereby rendering it much less useful until it recalibrates again. Bob Meister