Photofreak, my oldest daughter had some of the same symptoms you have. She would have to touch things a certain amount of times, often times different parts of her head, like her lips, cheeks, forehead, but other objects too, or sometimes her sister (which drove her sister nuts). Or give kisses to different objects in her bedroom, such as all the stuffed animals. And she had to do this in a certain order, etc. She had the eye-blinking bad. She would sit in her classroom and be blinking her eyes like that, really big exagerated blinks and her teachers would grow uncomfortable. With advice from her teachers, we decided to ignore the behavior completely, the idea being that if we didn't keep commenting on it, my daughter would "forget" it and the behavior would extinguish itself. Whereas if we kept commenting on it or telling her to stop doing those things, they would be brought into her conscious thought and she would do them even more.

I tell you all this because it is good news, she is 18 today, off at college, and she hardly does these things any more at all. She doesn't do eye blinking at all, and her touching is much more subtle. She can control it in public but will sometimes "give in" to it when she is alone or with trusted family members, and she will do her touches slyly when she has to, so you can't really notice them. But overall, she just doesn't do all this stuff much at all. When she gets stressed out, the behaviors become more noticeable. But overall, I would consider her "cured." She kind of grew out of it, and we learned to not bug her about it, and it fixed itself.