After upgrading to Snow Leopard - multimedia keys not controling itunes

After I upgraded to SL all the special keys( Brightness control, Volume control etc.) are working perfectly, excpet for the media controls (rewind, play\pause, forward). They used to control itunes in Leopard, but now I'm lost without them.
I tried:
- Upgrading to itunes 9 - didn't help.
- Upgrading to 10.6.1 - didn't help.
- Unchecked "Use all F1,F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" - didn't help.
- Restored my keyboard shortcuts to default.
I should also mention that the play\pause button does not start itunes as I have read it does for other people after upgrading to SL.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Do those same keys work OK otherwise, in other apps? Have you tried the same thing with a USB keyboard?
Try resetting some of the hardware that may be involved. See this Apple KB for details, etc.:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
Can't hurt to try, and apparently this has helped others recently.

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