Apple keyboard software overrides QuarkXpress function keys

HELP
I recently installed Tiger 10.4.11 update, and the apple keyboard software update 1.2 for use with a new Apple keyboard. However, in QuarkXpress 6.5, now the function keys F7 and up do not work in Quark — presumably because they are being used by the keyboard software. I presumed when an application was running (e.g., Quark) IT would override. I need my F7 key in Quark!
Is there a way to make the application take precedence? Or, is there a way to disable or uninstall the apple keyboard software? The function keys for use with itunes and dashboard, etc. are far less important to me than having the function keys available in software I use daily for work.
Thanks so much!
jelcroy

Thanks for the reply — I tried that, which seemed the obvious solution, but I cannot find the place to change that — it is NOT in the keyboard shortcut list in the keyboard preferences.
The F7 thru F9 keys on the new keyboard control playback, which I presume to be itunes and\or DVD player, judging from the icons on those keys.
Haven't found a place to disable them. In adding apps in the keyboard shortcuts, which I tried, it doesn't allow for the key combinations needed to restore the Quark functionality I am missing since the keyboard software update, which I wish I hadn't done. There's not enough functionality in the keyboard that isn't available in a myriad of other ways to make it worthwhile, especially when it means giving up the convenience if those commands in Quark, which is where I spend the majority of my time.
Anyone have other ideas? Can the Apple keyboard software be uninstalled or disabled?
BTW, the control F1 command to turn off keyboard access doesn't work either.

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