Windows XP - Bootcamp ---need mouse controls

I just partitioned my MacBook Pro (10.6.6) HD using Bootcamp. I installed Windows XP and noticed that the only response from my mouse pad while in Windows is only when I hard-press the mouse pad. I have no double-click or finger scroll capabilities. I have read other posts in reference to downloading applications but they mainly pertain to Windows 7, Vista or mice that I don't have. Is there a DL available to allow me to control my built in mouse pad so that I can have full functionality as in my MAC OSX?

True. There are no XP drivers available for the 2011 MacBook Pros. So even though the 2011 MacBook Pro can run XP, without any XP drivers available, you can't take advantage of any of the hardware in the 2011 MacBook Pro. I tried to find the AMD Radeon HD 6490M driver on the internet, and AMDs site directs you back to the OEM manufacturer. So since Apple did not write XP drivers for the new hardware, you can't effectively run XP. So it looks like you are stuck with Windows 7 if you need to run a specific Windows program.
I did a further search on the internet and found Dell and HP OEM vendor drivers for the AMD Radeon HD 6490M, and their system requirements are also Windows 7. So you can't even find an XP driver no matter where you search, because they just don't exist.

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starting Windows in safe mode to see if the mouse and keyboard work. (Press F8 repeatedly just before Windows starts to boot to bring up the Windows boot menu.) Safe mode loads a set of basic drivers to just get Windows running and no more.
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But.... and I don't know about Calyx, doing things like save pdf and email should work fine same as usual.
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I used Fusion but found I prefered running Windows natively at the time.
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I'm having problem switching back to Mac OS on my Macbook Air. It's currently running Windows 7 bootcamp without a Mac OS installed with it. I tried booting up on Mac OSX installer disc (Snow Leopard) on the external CDROM drive but it boots to Windows instead. I tried the Boot Camp Control Panel on Windows and Restart to Mac OS X but it could not find an OS X intalled and I tried changing the startup disc to the installation disc on the CDROM and restarted but still goes to Windows.
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