Aluminium wired keyboard on Leopard

Hey folks,
I recently got an Aluminium keyboard for my Powermac G5 (PowerPC) but I'm having problems with the F keys!
The mute & master volume keys don't seem to be working and I can't find anywhere that I can map them (system pref/keyboard doesn't let me set them!).
Also, the play/pause key (F8) doesn't seem to work yet the Previous & Next keys (F7 & F9) do!
Very frustrating!!
Any help would be braw.
Cheers!

OK, sorry, didn't see that!
Others that I hope are 10.5 compatible...
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/6746/ikey
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14352/spark
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/6134/quickeys-x

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