Totally agree. Continually typing away and wondering where the insertion point has disappeared to to find I'm inserting test at the top of the page.
Then with my new laptop I was baffled as to why my browser window kept zooming in and out- to discover that multi-touch was the problem. The point is, having discovered multi-touch on the laptop I'm genuinely baffled what earthly use it could be if you did find a use for it; it's so fiddly and imprecise I can only consign it to the "pointless gimmick" bin.