You should be able to turn the touchpad off using xinput. The new xserver allows changing input device properties at runtime.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Fix Released
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synaptic touchpad: can't turn it off.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18874
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