Booting with new aluminium keyboard

Hi,
I got the new aluminium keyboard yesterday - seems to be fine but:
While booting there were no keys recognized at all. Neither CMD-V for verbous booting messages nor ALT for selecting either MacOS or BootCamp/Windoze...
Is there still a firmware update pending?
I'm using a Intel MacMini with MacOS 10.4.10, the latest keyboard update and all other published patches and updates...
Any hints?

Hi Doug, Hi Paul,
@Doug:
It seems to me that the new keyboard is simply not recognized by the bootloader/EFI/<whatever>. The girl from AppleCare asked me to check wether booting from the installation DVD works (i.e. booting with the "c"-key pressed) - it doesn't. Booting with CMD-s into single user mode doesn't work either.
So maybe you're right concerning the "standard feature", but if there's no keyboard connected there are no features - and "not connected" and "not recognized" seems to be the same here...
The only other Mac I have probably access to is my old G4-Mini which I've sold to a friend of mine. Besides that there's a different bootloader for PowerPC I don't expect an older Mac to recognize this brand new keyboard better. OTOH my old keyboard (a Macally iKeySlim) still works on my Intel-Mini so I see no reason for distrust here.
@Paul:
Nice to know that it's not soley my problem
If I understand you right you're saying that on your iMac the keyboard is working correctly - even during boot. Is that right? So you are able to get the boot messages on the iMac when booting with CMD-v pressed (with the new aluminum keyboard of course)?
It would be fine to narrow down the problem a bit to be able to make a meaningful bugreport for the guys @Apple...
Thank you both so far!
Matthew
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