Simultaneous trackpad gestures gone in Lion

I used to be able to perform trackpad gestures at the same time as clicking down on the trackpad. This has gone in Lion; now when you click, no gestures can be performed at the same time. Can this be turned back on?
Examples of where I used to use it (and I did it a LOT):
• Click down on a file, then with my other hand I'd do a 4 finger swipe up to show the desktop. This is an easy way to drag files to folder on the desktop/pen drives etc.. without having to do it in finder.
• Same as above, but with a 4 finger swipe down to being up Expose. When dragging files in/out/to/from different applications, it's nice to be able to do this all from the trackpad.
I know for the second one I can just press F3 to bring up mission control, and there's probably an easy solution for the desktop as well, but it just seems weird that since upgrading to the new OS, I actually lose functionality from the trackpad.

I was having the same problem, I found a fix by changing the preferences to without inertia and after a reboot it fixed the problem, I can now scroll with inertia.  Looks like a .plist got jumbled.

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