15" G4 FW800 Alu Replace Keyboard With Different Language Possible?

I have recently acquired a 15" PowerBook G4 FW800. The unit is Japanese and has a keyboard for that region. I ordered replacement keyboard that is US English. The new keyboard works great. However the layout it uses is still the funky English layout from the Japanese keyboard. Changing the Input settings does nothing. Hooking an external keyboard works fine and has the correct English layout.
When I go into Open Firmware the layout works as you would expect from the normal English QWERTY layout. I assume there is some sort of option in the firmware that tells MacOS X which keyboard layout to use for the internal keyboard.
Is there any way to force a specific keyboard language layout for the internal PowerBook keyboard or is this not possible at all?

Unfortunately that didn't work. The option doesn't show up for the internal PowerBook keyboard.
I had hoped for a more permanent solution like a way of modifying the firmware to change which type of keyboard MacOS sees attached. I would think that it's just a single value that it reads to determine this information.
I am going to take a crack at switching they keyboard again and see if the keyboard layout I created works ok with the US English keyboard. There are a couple buttons on that layout which aren't on the JIS layout so I don't know if those will work with the new layout. The layout is working fine with the JIS keyboard connected. We'll see.
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