what cuases a mouse on a laptop to act eratically at times? its an ibm where the scroll is a little red ball in the center of the keyboard?

Define eratically. For example, is the cursor jumping around in different directions than where you are trying to move it, is the speed of the cursor changing randomly, does it just stop fuctioning?

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