Navigating the VNC GUI With a Trackpad's Hard

I just spent way too much time trying to navigate the Android GUI through VNC.

Basically, it sucks.  It's so unresponsive and so easily confused that the whole experience is completely frustrating. Here, in theory, are instructions. I can't make the keystrokes work.

I'm trying to do this through my netbook's trackpad. I could try plugging a mouse into the remaining USB port, but wait ...

The same instructions say that the USB port on the board works if something's plugged into it at boot time. Yow. That would actually give me a mouse running on the target. 

I borrowed a mouse from the guy sitting next to me in the coffee shop, and tried it.  Yep. It works. Unfortunately, it's very jerky and I still can't figure out how to scroll.

Maybe with my own mouse it'll work better.  I'll try tomorrow.