MacBook Pro track pad won't scroll after OS 10.8.3 update

I've run the update for my MacBook to 10.8.3 and now my track pad is no longer functioning correctly. I've checked the system pref. settings and all is the same there. Specifically I can no longer scroll up and down on the page and must resort to scroll bars for this—which requires me to resize the window just to get them to appear! Any ideas?

Weird.  Have you tried this in a different user account (e.g., Guest)? How about when starting up in Safe Mode?

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