TouchPad Left Click is stuck. Requires replacement. Instead, I want to disable it.

[BareGrizzly]

What can I do to disable ONLY the LEFT touchpad button on my laptop?

Issues: Left Click sticks by itself randomly, this causes problems when using my USB mouse (such as permanent dragging, permanent highlighting, permanent inability to left click anything, the computer is pretty much dead to me unless I try to tab around), it also causes issues with the Tap to Click, and it also causes Ubuntu to not recognize my "Left Handed" mouse button set up after boot for ONLY the touchpad. On the USB mouse, buttons work swapped.

Current solution: Left Handed Button Swap. Touch pad to click. Right touchpad button to right click. Sometimes I use my USB (which does recognize the swap).

This is the 3rd install of vanilla Ubuntu (tried it just in case). That's not the issue.

This is a Dell Inspiron 6000.

Ideally I want to just disable the left button on ONLY the touchpad, I don't want this to affect my USB mouse. I want to keep the right button touch pad working. And of course I want my mouse to work. But, actually, my ideal is to sacrifice the left button, use Tap to Click, and use the right mouse button for right clicking.

If I can't save the right click, can I disable both buttons? I'd rather not do that and get a more surgical solution.

[Rubberman]

I think you can configure the Dell BIOS to disable the touchpad/buttons when a mouse is detected. At least on some of their systems. I don't know about this one specifically.