Setting up Left Handed Mouse option

I am only able to use the left hand and I am running both Mac OS and Vista VM Ware on my Macbook Air. I am using a wireless Kensington mouse because I needed two buttons to operate Vista.
Being left handed I configure the Apple System Preference panel so that:-
- the trackpad would NOT be disabled when I use the mouse
- the main button on the mouse was the right button (since I cannot use my right hand).
Mouse works fine but since I have selected these options the trackpad mouse is simply disabled! But if I reset the mouse option to left button as main button, then both mouse and trackpad bar work.
THIS IS A BUG that is in the way of disabled people! Can you please provide a fix which allows me to use a mouse for left handed, WITHOUT at the same time disabling the trackpad bar/mouse?

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