Secondary click not working

Hi, since I updated to Lion I can not enable the secondary click on the Track Pad on system preferences. Does any body know how can I fix this?

Thanks for replying!
I think we all are using our trackpad (at least I do).
I try to explain (sry, but I'm german and so is the setting-language)
Here I selected the secondary-click! It even shows the wrong explain-video on the right! (look at the second picture)
It does not work! And after closing the window and reopen it, the secondary-click is not selected anymore! It still shows the wrong video by the way.

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