How do I fix scrolling in Lion?

I've read in various places that you can revert scrolling in Lion back to how it was Snow leopard via an option under preferences under either "mouse" or "trackpad," but unfortunately I don't have this option on my system.
I have an early '08 Macbook and use the previous version of apple's BT (mighty) mouse. Any thoughts or ideas? This reverse scrolling is driving me nuts!

Hm.  That sounds like a corrupted preference pane.
I don't know when you installed Lion, but if it wasn't today, you could check to see if the preference pane has been modified since you installed Lion. Look at /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Trackpad.prefPane and see if the file has been modified since you installed Lion.
If it has, and you have a Time Machine (or other) backup, you could restore the preference pane from the backup right after you installed Lion.
I'm not sure if you can download the Trackpad software from Apple Downloads - it's possible to do so for earlier versions (http://support.apple.com/downloads/#trackpad), but I'm not sure if they'll work for Lion.

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