My new MacBookPro (Mac OSX 10.6.7) trackpad preferences not useful...

My new MacBookPro (Mac OSX 10.6.7) trackpad preferences is trying to detect a bluetooth enabled trackpad instead of displaying the standard trackpad preferences. I really want to be able to set the trackpad preferences, but can't. How to fix this?

It was odd. The good news is that all is well now after performing an update to 10.6.8.

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Repair permissions and restart your computer.
Make sure you have the updated scanner drivers installed.
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Hello, The Hatter, I read about the 'trick' of backing up, erasing, and restoring too, but I figured it would take longer than defragmenting the disk.
But the defragmentation process has just finished! so I'm gonna try to run Boot Camp again soon!
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SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
CCC http://www.bombich.com/download.html
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
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Say thanks by clicking "Kudos" "thumbs up" in the post that helped you.
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Mac OSX sofware update problems-computer will not start-up any more

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I am having problems & I cannot get back into my computer. It won't complete the start up & just has the grey apple in the middle of the white screen and nothing else.
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Go down to the other link and follow the same instructions.
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Man... gmax3100 have a POOR opengl performance under Mac Osx Leopard in 2d. It is NOT my problem but it is a known problem. Try to run some benchmark with gma950 and gma x3100.
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MacMini cd 1.6 opengl performance gma950: 184.76
it is a know problem:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/mac-opengl/2008/Jan/msg00025.html
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=446938
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=448571
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=403685
ecc.
exposè make 40fps and it is NOT fluid like a nvidia or ati card. Exposè is a simple animation, under arch linux and geforce3 (2001) is more more fluid respect leopard... and respect to tiger.
with this hack:
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Please help,
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*Also see --> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Installing+Firefox+on+Mac
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