No Pen Pressure?

I got a brand new Wacom Bamboo Capture Pen & Touch Tablet from my brother for Christmas. The package came with a copy of Photoshop Elements 8. I was excited to try it out, so I went and installed it. I went to test it out and found out that it doesn't think I'm using a tablet. The eraser doesn't work and there is no pen pressure. Now, I'm no stranger to tablets and Photoshop Elements. My last tablet was more basic and came with Photoshop Elements 6.0 (which looks identical to elements 8, really) and with my last tablet, the program seemed to have no questions, and picked up the fact that I was using a pen tablet by implementing pen pressure and eraser automatically. So why is Elements 8 and this tablet so different? Is there something I'm missing?

Since your familar with how the tablet is supposed to work in pse 8 (same as pse 6), then you should check the wacom site and see if there is a newer driver for your bamboo.
Anyway in case you forgot where the settings are in pse for tablet pressure with the brush tool selected:

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