MacBook Pro Trackpad functionality to a MacBook?

Here's the story:
I have a MacBook Pro that I enjoy using the two-finger to scroll and two finger-click for right-click functionality.
A friend has a regular MacBook (in sexy black...) who had been using the great program SideTrack ( http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/sidetrack/index.html ) to add this functionality to his trackpad.
Well, now that Leopard is out, SideTrack is not compatible.
Does anyone know other ways to enhance the functionality of the MacBook trackpad?

Thanks, all, for your interest.
I checked my friend's Intel MacBook - he's running 10.4.10.
Very weird. I, too, was surprised when he said he didn't the two-finger thing, cuz I'd remembered that it had been added to all MacBooks.
I'll ask him to uninstall the SideTrack program to see if it is changing the native trackpad preferences (but I don't think that should be the case...)

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