Secondary click in Lion, Macbook Pro 4,1

I have an early 2008 macbook pro (Macbook Pro 4,1).
In Lion, the only way to right-click is using ctrl+click. If I select "Secondary click" in System Preferences/Trackpad, it gets automatically un-selected when I exit System Preferences. This is very frustrating. Any idea how to fix it?

Add my name to the list. This happens with ALL 15" Macbook Pros 4,1.
The 17" Macbook Pro 4,1 is immune, and the 13" Macbook Pro didn't exist at the time.
I work for a University, thus we got Lion early for testing purposes. It was obvious on July 1st that this was an issue, and so we posted on the developer forums about it. Got several replies from other developers with the same laptops that have the same issue, but no official response from Apple.
Bought Lion for my personal laptop today (which happens to also be a 15" MBP 4,1), and the issue still exists.
So, I should think Apple is aware of it by now. Hopefully it is fixed in the first round of bug fixes.

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