Trackpoint Scroll Problem

Hi guys,
I switched to arch a few weeks ago and I love it... but one of the problems I'm having is with my xorg.conf.
I have a thinkpad t61 and I love using the trackpoint and center touch pad click to scroll up and down on webpages (much like center mouse click and scroll on a normal mouse) but I can't get it to work. I also had the tap to click running and when I upgraded synaptic it broke. Any ideas? Thanks
Here is my xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
#RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "xtrap"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "true"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
#Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
#Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro NVS 140M"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

What version of Xorg are you running? Have you tried this? http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_co … TrackPoint

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