synaptic? what no opensource driver?

["somethin2cool@yahoo.com" <somethin2cool@yahoo.com>]

This group is full of people wanting the synaptics touchpad driver. My 
touchpad works fine, but only as a touchpad. There are no options to 
configure it to not open things on tap, or scroll when i run my finger 
down the side of the touchpad.

I don't really want to use a wrapper to get the synaptics driver working 
in debain 4 (xfce) just for these features.

apt-get install what? to use an alternative? :-) or am I way off? 
Drivers go in th kernel don't they?

Thanks