Brightness and Volume Display Broken

Hello,
Recently, I have installed the latest Mac OS X 10.5.6 update. Everything afterwards has been fine however, when I press the volume/brightness keys on my laptop, the little picture that displays the volume level etc now shows as blank. It still shows the level indicator bar but the rest of the image is white. I was wondering if this could be fixed perhaps through the replacement of a config file or something but I have no idea.
I hope that someone can provide help with the issue.
Thanks.

Welcome to Apple Discussions:
The function keys may have been reset.
Check in Keyboard & Mouse in System Preferences and be sure the box marked
"Use all F1, F2 etc...." is either checked or unchecked (try both).
Also check the Keyboard Shortcuts.
You might also check Universal Access to see if the keys have been reassigned.

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