IBM USB kbd use disables Lenovo touchpad control

Both the IBM portable USB keyboard and the Lenovo C200 use a Synaptics touch pad.  Installing the IBM keyboard software and using it causes you to lose control of the touch pad on the Lenovo.  Control Panel/Mouse gives you the error message "Unable to connect to the Synaptics Pointing Device Driver".   Then I see The Mcrosoft mouse driver (I use a USB mouse at times)  I desperately wish to disable the Lenovo touch pad, and, when forced to use it, to turn off tap to click, but have no idea how to access the Lenovo pad driver in a way other than thru the Control Panel.  I have installed the latest touch pad driver from Lenovo, no change.  Has anyone found a work around for this particular IBM/Lenovo ooopsie?  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

N200 & XP: similar problem. Lost some functionality of the notebook touchpad and when trying to rectify got the same message: "Unable to connect to the Synaptics Pointing Device Driver".

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