Control key remapping broken

I want to remap the control key to the caps lock on my PB.
To do this, I used System Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Modifier Keys to make both caps lock and control keys perform the control action.
The result is unreliable.
Usually both keys perform the control action.
But the caps lock key gets stuck doing only control, or only no effect. It's as if it were still a toggle key like caps lock, not a shift key like a control.
Is this a known bug?

As I wrote above, I've never seen it reported in any of the tens of thousands of Powerbook-related posts I've read in the last five years. So I don't think it's a "known bug," if what you mean by a "bug" is a design flaw in Apple's software. It may be a hardware problem in your particular Powerbook, but I doubt that it afflicts all PBs of that model, because I think we'd have heard about it before if it did. And I suspect the same would be true if it were a software bug. So the only thing I can suggest is taking the PB to an Apple Store Genius Bar (make an appointment first) and seeing what the Genius thinks about it after you demonstrate it to him/her.
A year or two ago, you could have reported your problem through Apple's Product Feedback channel for Powerbooks, but because Apple isn't going to make any changes to out-of-production Powerbooks now, that channel has been closed. You could use the OS X channel, though.

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I want to remap the control key to the caps lock on my PB.
To do this, I used System Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Modifier Keys to make both caps lock and control keys perform the control action.
The result is unreliable.
Usually both keys perform the control action.
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Is this a known bug?
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