It looks like a bit of HAL magic can fix it. I made X use synaptics by copying /usr/share/doc/hal/examples/10-x11-input.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy and making a slight change because my ALPS touchpad behaves like a touchscreen when evdev handles it.
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