Apple Keyboard in XP -- Freezes

Keyboard and mouse work great in mac os, in XP ran under bootcamp the keyboard freezes often, the caplock light stays on solid and I have to unplug and plug it back in. Happens about every 30 mins. Pretty annoying.
I have searched the forums, and and only one solution was found, they keyboard update #1, unfortunately this is for os 10.4.6 not 10.4.7 which is what I have.
Any Suggestion?

I have a question: I have a custom-built Windows 7 machine with a Gigabyte Motherboard. I bought an Apple Compact Wired Aluminum USB keyboard (the one without the Numeric Pad). I can press Function keys to choose startup OS etc.. but in order to enter the BIOS settings, Gigabyte requires a DEL key press. Pressing the "delete" key on the Apple keyboard is not generating the correct DEL key press. Anyone know if there is a key combination I can press at startup to generate the DEL code and enter BIOS settings when using a Gigabyte Motherboard My only work-around now is to keep a PC keyboard around for when I need to enter the BIOS (and that is quite annoying as you can imagine). Thank you for any help you can provide.

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    Jan 14 21:01:39 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145183.722          IOUSBCompositeDriver[0xffffff803ae3be00](CompositeDevice) GetFullConfigDescriptor(0) returned NULL
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    Jan 14 21:02:23 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145228.200          AppleUSBHubPort[0xffffff803a123000]::FatalError - Port 3 of Hub at 0xfa110000 reported error 0xe000404f while doing get status (first in port status change)
    Jan 14 21:02:23 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145228.200          AppleUSBHubPort[0xffffff8039fd0c00]::FatalError - Port 2 of Hub at 0xfa110000 reported error 0xe00002ed while doing get status (first in port status change)
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    Jan 14 21:03:04 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145268.325          AppleUSBHubPort[0xffffff8039bc4c00]::FatalError - Port 3 of Hub at 0xfa110000 reported error 0xe00002c0 while doing get status (first in port status change)
    Jan 14 21:03:20 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145285.139          [0xffffff8038559600] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in.  It will keep retrying.  (Port 1 of Hub at 0xfa100000)
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    Jan 14 21:03:24 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145288.882          [0xffffff8038559600] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in.  It will keep retrying.  (Port 1 of Hub at 0xfa100000)
    Jan 14 21:03:25 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145289.385          [0xffffff8038559600] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.
    Jan 14 21:04:05 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145329.455          AppleUSBHubPort[0xffffff803a24e400]::FatalError - Port 1 of Hub at 0xfa110000 reported error 0xe00002c0 while doing clearing port feature (1)
    Jan 14 21:04:05 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145329.456          AppleUSBHubPort[0xffffff8038a96200]::FatalError - Port 2 of Hub at 0xfa110000 reported error 0xe00002c0 while doing clearing port feature (1)
    Jan 14 21:04:05 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145329.492          AppleUSBHubPort[0xffffff803a9a6600]::FatalError - Port 3 of Hub at 0xfa110000 reported error 0xe00002c0 while doing get status (first in port status change)
    Jan 14 21:04:06 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145330.483          AppleUSBHubPort[0xffffff803a24e400]::FatalError - Port 3 of Hub at 0xfa110000 reported error 0xe00002c0 while doing get status (first in port status change)
    Jan 14 21:04:06 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145330.703          IOUSBCompositeDriver[0xffffff803b7c3700](CompositeDevice) GetFullConfigDescriptor(0) returned NULL
    Jan 14 21:04:06 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145330.703          IOUSBCompositeDriver[0xffffff803c98b400](CompositeDevice) GetFullConfigDescriptor(0) returned NULL
    Jan 14 21:04:09 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145333.634          [0xffffff8038559600] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in.  It will keep retrying.  (Port 1 of Hub at 0xfa100000)
    Jan 14 21:04:09 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145334. 67          [0xffffff8038559600] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.
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    Jan 14 21:04:16 KrinkleMac kernel[0]: USBF:          145340.675          [0xffffff8038559600] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in.  It will keep retrying.  (Port 1 of Hub at 0xfa100000)
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