XPS 12 Touchpad Woes

Before I bought my XPS I read reviews praising the touch pad on this thing. I don't know if I have something defective or what but I won't be singing its praises. I am constantly fighting to get it to recognized that I am telling it to move and the clicking is TERRIBLE. I have it set to the fastest click setting and highest pressure setting and it's still . I'll click one time and it won't register, and then another time it will register a single click as a double click. I'm kind of at a loss with this thing. Every other part of it is excellent, I love the screen and the touch part of the screen, and the keyboard is ace. Has anyone experienced this? Any tips to tame this crazy thing, other than a USB mouse, which I am using more and more because of this mess. I checked and I have the latest drivers/software installed for it (cypress touch pad).  It will be 10 days old tomorrow and I seriously don't know if I can take 10 more days of this. Just now, while choosing tags, I'd click to select a tag and it would put a check mark in the box and take it right back out, just like it would do if you intentionally double clicked.