Missing OS X Lion Gestures

I recently took my laptop into the Apple Store for a faulty logic board. They replaced at no cost but when I got it back I noticed my double-tap to move wasn't working. I also noticed that tapping on the trackpad didn't work either. I had to use the button again (this is an old MacBook with the now-old-school long button along the bottom of the trackpad).
Went into System Preferences and enabled "Tap to Click" but for whatever reason that didn't re-enabled my ability to double-tap on a window (for example) and move it. I'm not busted down to using the button again.
A minor inconvenience but I liked not having to use the button. The constant clicking of the button is annyoning.
I also noticed that I don't have the ability to do a three-finger drag either. My question is, is there anyway to enable the same gestures that are on newer Macs? I have most everything like four-finger LaunchPad, three-finger swiping between full-screen apps and so on. Why can't I move a window with three-fingers or double-tap to move?
Anyone?

Aha, now I get it. Just the new three finger tap'n'hold for doing what one finger tap-tap'n'hold did before is missing. That is strange. I can not see any reason for this since it is no more complex than any other three or four finger thing.
Even if you would have some hack installed the System Preference wouldn't lack such an isolated feature. But, isn't this the genious guys are in the AppStore for? I'm Swedish and we don't have any AppStore here so I might miss something but my impression of what has been said about the geniouses are that they provide support of the more general knowledge seeking type of questions?. That is you do not need a support deal like AppleCare or a new Mac to put them on the task to answer such things as why is three fingers t'n'h missing but non of the other?
I use a late 2008 Unibody 13" MacBook (non pro) and it has the large glass trackpad and have the threefinger thing implemented as one would expect. I prefered the one finger double tap and hold since three finger take a bit of space and this is a guesture were you move your finger over the trackpad area. One finger reach further since it really can go edge to edge on the track pad and gives a feeling of being more precise since if your thre fingers are changing their distance between each other, which point is overriding the others? But all in all it works ok.
Perhaps you have a bug going on, and you just would need to find the right 'defaults' parameter to set? Your preferences files might shed a light on this? Those are the ones ending with .plist and is located in ~/Library/Preferences/ or the system wide settings are stored in /Library/Preferences and the 'man defaults' terminal command gives you a command line tool to use to set these values.

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