Synaptics touchpad detects as Macintosh and dosnt work at all

This issue is in all Ubuntu distributions but 11.10 how ether in Ubuntu 11.10 I'm having a display issue so i cant use that distribution either... Link to the display issue: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+question/178731

In Ubuntu 10.04 if i do an xinput --list my touchpad displays as a "Macintosh mouse button emulator"

I have tried adding i8024.reset and i8024.nomux=1 to the quiet splash in grub but it didn't fix the issue
Link: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+question/147896

If i do a 'modrpobe --list | grep input' i get the following related to the mouse

kernel/drivers/input/mouse/appletouch.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/gpio_mouse.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/sermouse.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics_i2c.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/vsxxxaa.ko

My touchpad is a Synaptics and its on a Sony VPCYB36KG