Right-click functionality on trackpad disappears randomly. Please help?

Hello everyone. I'm new to these forums, and I guess I'm no mac veteran either.
I'm currently running Boot Camp with Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro. I bought it circa Nov 2008, and a few months ago I deleted my windows partition and made it fresh with Win7 and my Snow Leopard CD.
I don't know if my problem has been there all along, but I often lose right-click functionality in Windows 7. Nothing short of a reboot will restore it, despite me looking again and again in the boot camp settings. I've no idea what causes it either.
I read in these forums to check for software updates in Mac OS X (done), and to upgrade my Boot Camp to the 3.1 version. Under Applications -> Utilities, it says that my Boot Camp Assistant's version is 3.0.1., so I booted Windows 7 and ran the 3.1 updater (64-bit version). But the problem is still there.
Can anyone help me?

Everything is working now! After installing w7, I immediately installed the 3.0 drivers and the 3.1 bootcamp download before proceeding to do anything else except for the mandatory restarts. Last few times I re-installed 7 (in hopes of fixing the issues) I always messed with display settings, installed Chrome, dl'd MS essentials, etc. before getting around to the BC drivers. Not this time!
After bootcamp was installed and updated I restarted a few times for good measure before proceeding to download the "windows updates". Then I turned on the tap to click features.
note: I used the track pad button until after both bootcamp updates were installed.
I know this may sound unnecessary, but perhaps the order of what you do and don't do affects the drivers. I spent many hours on forums without finding a relevant and working solution. I hope this order of operations can benefit someone.

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