Thinkpad Touchpad not working after FedUp F17->F18 upgrade

Hi all! I just upgraded my Thinkpad T430s last night from F17 to F18 using FedUp, and while everything seems to be working nicely at this point after a first reboot I found that my touchpad didn't seem to work at all. The pad itself didn't respond to presses and the hardware buttons did not work either.

After talking to a coworker with a similar problem, we found that the xorg-x11-drv-synaptics package did not get updated from the F17 1.6.3-4.fc17.x86_64 as a part of fedup. After doing a yum remove/yum install of xorg-x11-drv-synaptics however, the package got updated to version 1.6.3-3.fc18.x86_64. I performed a reboot and all was well at this point. I just wanted to make sure that anyone who had a similar problem had an answer available here!

Here are some of the steps that I tried in troubleshooting:

$ synclient -l
this returned the following:
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver installed

$ gpointing-device-settings
This only showed my trackpad settings (eraser mouse), but not the touchpad settings at all

# cat /dev/input/mouse0
This showed output when using the touchpad, so I knew that the system still recognized and processed input from the device

I hope that this helps someone else as my coworker was able to help me!