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I found a blog post that told me to go to the properties of my mouse and "update driver" after installing the Lenovo trackpad driver. Apparently the auto update process is not working like it did in RC1 and does in XP. I had to do it manually. The driver was installed in the drivers bin in the windows folder, so I directed the update process to the driver file there directly. Once I did that a new tab opened up in the properties dialog related to my mouse (Control panel>mouse) which had all the Trackpad related settings. Life is good again!!!!