Yes people; that is my excuse for some of the poor entries here, Even if you don't buy it (you have to admit it is a pretty good lie at the very least), you can understand the annoyance.
So I surfed to the gnome extension site and fetched me the touchpad extension and it will turn the touchpad off whenever a mouse is attached,
I don't know if you can do this in KDE but the Gurus here will enlighten me, I am sure. Anyway I am now able to ramble on with no disturbances whatsoever,
I pull out the USB bit for the remote mouse -and the touchpad is activated, I put it back in and it is deactivated and the mouse works.
This is great stuff!