Toshiba Satellite Tablet PC... Laptop from Hell

Well, if you guys think that computers and I don't get along, wait until I tell you about my brother's laptop... a real doozy (sp?) to say the least.

The model is: TOSHIBA SATELLITE R15 TABLET PC, it comes with Windows XP w/SP3 and even though this is just a Vista forum, I trust you guys.

He lives in Guatemala, he tells me that his laptop is acting up and that he took it to the Toshiba Shop there and they told him that he needed a new motherboard, I ask why, he can't answer me. I asked him to tell me if the Laptop can get to the desktop and he says YES, I figure that whatever is happening to it can not be the mobo. He says that he'll be in Miami in a few days so I told him to bring it, I'll take a look at it even though laptops and I get along worse than PCs and I , if that doesn't work, I'll take it to a Toshiba retailer here so they can dig in deeper.

Well, the laptop is here, what it does is completely wierd for sure, if you are on the desktop and you click on 1 of the icons there, all of the icons to the left side of it and above the icon you just clicked on get HIGHLIGHTED... WTF???

If you get to Explore, same thing happens to files inside a folder which makes it extremely hard to open documents or applications.

Here's where the odd and doozy thing takes place... after a few restarts and/or log offs, the laptop works just as well as any other laptop... :eek:

I have my suspicions that this has a lot to do with the stickykeys or hotkeys because, at times, a popup shows up regarding the stickykeys with 3 options, OK to enable, Cancel to Disable and Settings to get into the options but, no matter what you click on, the thing can or can not work intermitent. The thing is that I don't know which application or program does this and even though I have managed to uninstall the majority of the Toshiba bundle apps, the problem persists.

Before I take it to the shop I was wondering if any of you gurus has ever heard of the issues and or what you suggest I try. I honestly don't want to waist to much time with it since I despise laptops but the masochist in me does not allow me to just walk away from a challenge w/o, at least, trying something first... :D

Can you at least show me where can I get the software CD from? I have been on their site and I can get to each individual driver but not the whole CD software.