Cannot British input source with Safari

I am using a Microsoft Wireless Laser Keyboard 6000, which has a British layout, with my Macbook. It works fine apart from some of the key mappings don't match up with what is printed on the keys.
I have Snow Leopard, and going to 'System Preferences' > 'Language & Text', I can select which input sources to show in the input menu in the menu bar. One of the options is 'British - Microsoft', which I can tick and then select from the menu bar as an input source.
This only works for SOME applications (e.g. Word), but not for others (e.g. Safari). When in Word I can select 'British - Microsoft' and all my keys are mapped correctly. However, if I then switch to Safari, the keyboard sets itself back to 'British', and if I try to change it again, I find that 'British - Microsoft' is greyed-out and cannot be selected.
Why is this, and is there any way I can use a British style Microsoft keyboard with Safari without having to learn the odd key mapping?
Any advice much appreciated.

This has come up before, I think the MS layout is defective.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10984328&#10984328
PC and Mac keyboards are slightly different. See if one of these helps:
http://liyang.hu/osx-british.xhtml

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