Hi brentosmond
Welcome to the forum.
That's one of my pet peeves too. I use the attached script to disable
my touchpad. I keep the script in ~/.local/bin. I have a file called touchpad
in ~/.X.d/ which contains the line:
Touchpad.sh Off
That command gets executed automatically after X starts.
You just need to setup 2 variables, TouchpadName and PropertyName.
Read the comments in the script to find out how to obtain their values.