Paul
Bug reports would have been useful - most things are configurable in the driver so if you just want tap we could do that.
I did some more investigation into the erratic behaviour and was amazed.
If you drag up and down along the right-hand edge of the pad, you get events for mouse buttons 4 and 5 (aka the scroll wheel).
If you drag left and right along the right-hand edge of the pad, you get events for mouse buttons 6 and 7. I had no idea what these were mapped to, but they sometimes act like a horizontal scroll wheel. In Mozilla they do next and previous in the page history.
If you tap the pad once you get a single mouse click.
If you do a double-tap you get a click-and-drag.
If you tap with one finger you get mouse button 1 clicks or drags
If you tap with two fingers you get mouse button 2 clicks / drags
If you tap with three fingers you get mouse button 3 clicks / drags
I dont remember seeing any documentation about these features anywhere - not even in the literature that came with the laptop.
I should look at a config tool for it I guess.
That sounds useful :)
-Cam