Dv6-3050us touchpad / touchbutton issues? Inconsistent behavior touching vs. pressing the buttons.

Question

Okay, so here's the deal:
The DV6-3050US has an integrated touch device. That is to say, both the typical touch pad AND the left/right buttons are touch-sensitive. However, they do not exhibit the expected behavior...
Specifically, the right "touch button" seems slightly weird.
Both button are touch sensitive. And both are also "clickable," IE, if you press down on them, they behave approximately as expected for a usual "button."
Thw problem arises in a couple areas.
Firstly, since the buttons are touch sensitive, any motinon on them is considered to be "touchpad motion," and the cursor moves, regardless of context. So, the cursor moves when dragging your finger across the button, but it also moves when you're just trying to click the physical "push button." This is an issue needing resolution because it often means that befoer you push hard enough to register a click, your finger has moved, thus the cursor has moved, thus it is sometimes no longer over the object you were tryign to click on. It is also sometimes over a completely different object you never meant to click on.
This brings us to the second issue. The first issue might not be as much of an issue if the right "touch button" also functioned as a "touch right-click," but it seems not to (rather, it ALSO functinos as a left-click). That is to say, if you tap/touch the left mouse button (without using the "physical click" by pressing even harder) it functions as a left click. This is probably a function of the fact that the ENTIRE pad (including the buttons) works like a left mouse click (as most touch pads can be set up to do, and generally are by default). The problem is, I'd LIKE IT if the right touch button acted as a "right click" when touched / tapped, rather than as the more generic pad-wide "touch/tap left click." That way, I could just tap the pad in the section that's supposed to be the "right mouse button" and it would act like a right mouse button / contextual click.
Is there a way to set this thing up so that things function AS EXPECTED? Is it an HP issue? Is it a Windows 7 issue? Is it a driver issue?
So, yeah, I'd like it to be that things work consistently.
Currently:
Entire "touch surface" functions as mouse cursor.
Touch "left mouse button" functions as left mouse click when touching/tapping and pressing
Touch "right mouse button" functions as left mouse click when touching/tapping, but as right mouse button when pressing.
Ideally:
Entire touch surface functions as mouse cursor.
Touch "left mouse button" functions as left mouse click when touching/tapping and pressing
Touch "right mouse button" functions as right mouse click when touching/tapping and pressing.
If it's not possible to get touching/tapping in the "left/right mouse button" sections of the touch surface to be consistent with the pressing/clicking action, then is it possible to disable ONLY that portion of the touch surface assigned to the "left/right mous button" sections of the pad, but leave the upper "touch pad" sectino sensitive to touch? That way, when pressing the "physical" left right mouse buttons, the cursor won't move during the process of pressing the buttons?
Hope this all is clear enough and makes sense?
Any suggestions?
I know the driver allows for defining areas of vertical / horizontal scrolling areas of the pad. But does it allow for changing or disabling the sections assigned to the "buttons"?
Best,
~Michael

Answer 1

Do you have the latest touchpad software installed?
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=4230544&
There are some settings, they can be found in control panel (icon view) > Mouse, there should be a tab for the touchpad.