Preference panes for Magic mouse and Trackpad not upgraded

Hi I upgraded my i5 iMAC27'' to Lion and the bluetooth track pad and magic mouse do not support any gestures. I have looked at all the similar threads but none seem similar to mine as I do seem to have the correct preference panes for these devices. It seems to just have really old panes from snow leopard.
Anybody know how I can fix this ?

Just tried a copy of a working reference pane from macbook air (2011) and it looks juts the same. The problem is deeper than the pane file itself.

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