Toshiba Lap Top came back from Calif. Broken?

It sounds to me as if the techs that worked on your laptop in CA changed the setting of your touchpad to suit them while they worked on it and then didn't return it to the original settings. If this is true, the good news is that it's not broken but the bad news is that you'll need to go thru the touchpad settings until you've gotten it to your liking. Good luck.

For some reason, this problem sounds very familiar to me. Something I heard about but never experienced is an application might be "stealing focus" so to speak. You might want to google that to see if sounds like what's happening with you computer and how you can fix it. Again I never had this problem so I wouldn't know what exactly to do to fix it. The only other thing I can think of if it only happens when your using a web browser. In that case, someone might have changed some of the settings. Sometimes when you type somewhere in a web page the page will scroll to where you are typing.

Sounds like a software issue to me. Just uninstall the touchpad software, reboot and then reinstall the latest version. Most laptops have Synaptics touchpad. If yours too, you can download from the link below.

http://www.synaptics.com/en/drivers.php