I don't know about SSIDs containing single quotes. Can you connect from other devices? Have you tried connecting manually? The single quote might need proper escaping which the wifi.sh script maybe isn't aware of yet.
For the touch pad, you can create an Xorg config like this
/usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver "synaptics"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "0"
        Option "TapButton3" "0"
        Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "off"
        Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "off"
EndSection
Change
  Option "TapButton1" "1"  
to  0, off, or false .
Then add the file to your backup 
echo "usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf" >> /opt/.filetool.lst
filetool.sh -b