Yes - ain't Abiword fun on this thing! Seriously, I think a lot of the problems are to do with the toiuchpad: get your hands anywhere near it and it waves its cursor around.. Mine tends to put my typing into the wrong place, or, as you say, select bits of it and lose them! A more serious problem is that moving the text up and down with the slider, which has to be done with the touchpad, can get into a loop, cheerfully moving the text ever upwards until it reaches the beginning. In this state there seems to be no way of stopping it, and the only safe thing is to close without saving and start again. I've even had it looping to and fro on the tab bar, just doing a jig! Is there any way of disabling the touchpad?