Okay, new update: This appears only to happen when I use the synaptics touchpad. I am in the process of moving, so with some effort I dug out a wired mosue and plugged it into my laptop with good results. When I move the mouse and stop the cursor remains stationary, but if I touch the touchpad it slowly scrolls down. I still have no idea whats wrong, but this seems to be good debugging information and makes these things useful for now. I will attempt to reinstall my xorg synaptics drivers later and see if that has an affect.
