Comment 3 for bug 516329

There is a workaround (posted in German), which supports right-click, but at the expense of any Synaptics enhanced functionality such as scrolling by dragging on the right side of the trackpad:
http://greendevnet.blogspot.com/2009/10/ubuntu-910-karmic-koala-no-touchpad.html

Also, here's a discussion I found on the topic of this new trackpad by kernel developers:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/926825