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Mouse Touchpad issues with SuSE 9.2

I just installed SuSE Linux 9.2, and am having problems with the mouse. I have a Toshiba Satellite A45-S250, which has a mouse touchpad. In SuSE 9.2, everytime I click on something by tapping on the mousepad, there is a small delay - only about a second, but enough to be noticeable and annoying - before it is actually clicked on. This also makes it impossible to double-click anything by tapping the touchpad. This delay does not happen when I use the buttons directly below the touchpad. I never had this problem in 9.1.

(As a side note, tapping the touchpad simply didn't work at all in 9.2 until I went into KDE Control Center and selected the specific mousepad that I have - this made the installation process take a while, so I ended up plugging in a USB mouse. Again, I never had to do this in 9.1 - the touchpad functioned flawlessly even in 9.1 installation, even when the mouse selected was just a generic "PS/2 mouse")

Also - perhaps this should be a different question but I think it's related enough to also be asked here - SuSE 9.2 allows the touchpad to emulate a "scroll wheel" when I move my finger on a certain small area on the right or bottom side of the touchpad, a feature I enjoyed when I 1st got my laptop a year ago, when it came with Windows, and no longer had after installing SuSE 9.1. It's a great feature, but I can't find anywhere to configure or disable it - I looked in YaST and KDE Control Center and can't find anything.
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Tried that, but that just made the tapping on the touch pad impossible again. Then I went into SaX2, tried to change the settings back, but after doing that it froze and when I restarted I got a bunch of errors about "mingetty" and it wouldn't start. Yesterday I brought my computer to be serviced (unrelated issues) and it won't be back for at least a week - after it gets back I'll try 9.2 again.
Sorry for taking so long, I got my computer back a couple weeks ago but practically forgot about this, and I was busy experimenting with other stuff (mainly Linux from Scratch). I just tried changing a few settings - I didn't copy-and-paste the entire text you provided (because that created more problems before) - I just changed several individual settings that seemed to have something to do with this problem (in particular MaxTapMove in MaxTapTime) but nothing happened.
FWIW: I'm now running SuSE Pro 9.3, and it's the same. I suspect that there's either something not quite right with the driver, or the settings need to be tweaked a little more than what I have so far.
Apparently it's not just SuSE...

I'm trying to get linux from scratch working and upgraded the lfs 5.1.1 kernel (2.4) to the latest stable 2.6 kernel. When I installed gpm I noticed that tapping the touch pad doesn't do anything, when (surprise...) it had worked fine with 2.4.
I found the "synaptics" driver and installed it -
Err meant to have more text there...

I installed the Synaptics driver - I still have some tweaking to do, but it seems it works pretty well now.