Magic trackpad touch to click

I have an older MBP, 17", 2008 model, I believe. Since many gestures don't work with the installed trackpad, I bought the magic trackpad. The installation appeared to go well, but when I open preferences, I only see preferences for "Trackpad", which appears to be some odd combination of the installed device and the Magic Trackpad. I see nothing about "4 finger gestures". All the gestures I associate with 4 fingers from the box and apple's website, show up using 3 fingers, not 4.
Also, and my main reason for asking, is that the touch to click does not work on the Magic Trackpad. I can push down to click, but I love the touch to click feature, but it doesn't work on the Magic Trackpad. It shows "Tap to Click" selected, and that option works on the installed trackpad, but it doesn't work with the Magic Trackpad.
I'm a little miffed with it all. I bought Lion because it had all the gestures. Only to find out most of them don't work on my system. It wasn't clear that was the case when I upgraded. So this time, I specificly looked hard to see if any features would be limited on older versions of MBP's and I could find nothing, so I bought it, installed it, and now can't get some of the gestures to work or even display what's available for "4 finger gestures".
Any ideas on this? Do some of the features not work with it? Or is something setup wrong and I need to change it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

iwebdrivingmecrazy wrote:
I have checked for updates and it says everything is up to date. I just bought it from the apple store yesterday, so I would think once it installed, it would be all good, but not so much.
The touch to click doesn't work on the magic trackpad at all.
Are you saying that your prefences for the Magic trackpad shows all the 4 touch gestures? Mine only shows 3 finger gestures. Even under all the demonstrations for the additional gestures, it shows demos of 3 finger gestures only.
What am I missing?
Did you check for updates while the MT was connected?
My Trackpad Prefs show 2 options under Four Finger.
I dunno that you're missing anything, but something doesn't sound right. Try clicking on the button "Set up BT trackpad" in Trackpad prefs.
If no luck, open BT prefs and remove MT. Restart MBP and add it again.

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