I've had this problem with every PowerBook I've ever owned. With my Pismo, I get it when my fingers stray too close to any seam in the housing, where the internal RF shield paint comes close to the outside world.
If I touch the metal frame on my WallStreet, I feel a shock too. All isolated power supplies have some amount of leakage current - it's inherent in the design. But with the plastic WallStreet case, one doesn't normally touch anything conductive when typing and mousing. With the tiBook normal typing results in the wrist touching the bare edge of the computer. I don't feel the shock from the ti sheet metal, apparently the anodization is a sufficient insulator.
And I often get it off the trackpad too.
I've never been shocked from the trackpad, but then I'm almost always using a mouse.
Paul
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