T61 touchpad, disabling tapping

I'm trying to figure out how to disable tapping on the touchpad on my T61. I can't seem to get to the configuration for the touch pad. I've tried installing the UltraNav driver and utility that I found on the lenovo site. (e.g. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-67226). The driver seems to be installed according to the windows device manager, but when I try to run the utility (UNAVOSD.exe) it says "UltraNav Driver is not installed".
I'm not even sure if that utility is what I want to be using, as on other machines the synaptics configuration appears in the Mouse control panel, but on my T61 all I get is settings for sample rate, wheel detectection and input buffer length.
Does anyone have some suggestions for what I should try next?

Ok, I had a chance to take a look at my ThinkPad, I haven't touched it in a few weeks , but today I found it. Try this.
-> Control Panel -> Mouse -> UltraNav tab -> TouchPad settings -> Tapping -> Enable
This is where I have it.
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