Any solution yet? MBP trackpad terrible in Boot Camp. Please rewrite the drivers.

Dear Apple,
The trackpad drivers for Windows under Boot Camp have been terrible ever since you removed the physical button from the trackpad.
It is ridiculous to try to do serious work when clicks are often misinterpreted as right-clicks, or else right-clicks are interpreted as something else. Under Lion, I can make it work ok to hold down 2 fingers and then to a physical click with my thumb. (Awkward -- a 2nd mouse button would be way better, but it's functional). Under Boot Camp and Windows, though, it's broken. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I'm considering returning my MBP for this simple little thing that you should be able to fix. Usually I carry my physical mouse around with me so I can actually have a right-button, but at the moment I'm sitting in a cafe in a chair with no room for the real mouse, and hence I'm feeling unproductive as so many of my clicks turn into something else.
I bought a MBP because I like the hardware, and I use Lion for a lot of things too, but I also do serious Windows development under Visual Studio.
People have been complaining about the trackpad drivers for years. Seriously, won't you fix it? If you need a consultant to help you do the software development, let me know. I don't have time to spend myself unless you want to hire me; it will be more productive for me simply to return this laptop or buy a 2nd laptop with actual buttons on the trackpad so I can do seirous work.
Maybe you could offer a version of MBP with 2 actual physical mouse buttons instead of the built-in crappy one.... I'm sure there's demand for it, at least to the population of your customers who use these awesome quad-core monster computers for serious work instead of writing emails and watching YouTube videos.
Sincerely,
Eric N.
P.S. I really hope Apple admits the problem and rewrites the trackpad drivers.
P.P.S. Additionally, please register a similar complaint about the lack of a physical forward-delete key on the laptop. The two huge, glaring mistakes with MBP are the lack of this simple key on the keyboard and the lack of reasonable mouse button options. Fn-delete is really annoying.

Just to update this post with the the same problem.
I also have the new Macbook Pro with SL and on Bootcamp XP installed. Everything
is working fine except the trackpad.
I´ve tried out the DVD the came with the origin Bootcamp (2.2 !), BC from SL-DVD
(3.0) and the brandnew Apple BC update 3.1.
Also tried to de-/reinstall, but trackpad´s still not working.
Anyone who could help us?

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