Disable Volume/Mute keyboard keys

Is it possible to disable the volume/mute keys on the keyboard so that they don't try to control system volume. I've been wanting to map to different keyboard shortcuts but can't, even with third party software, since you can't seem to assign them since they keep bringing up system audio, which I want to avoid.
Any ideas?

Alex Geis wrote:
I finally did some googling and found a screenshot of the keyboard pane and I'm definitely missing that checkbox for some reason, which I find very strange. Does it only show up with apple keyboards or something?
Not having a non-apple KB, I don't know if it's always there.
You may have a corrupted .plist.
To find out if it is a corrupted file, create a new user and see if the missing checkbox is there under the new account. If not, it's a system thing that needs to be solved.
If the new user has the checkbox, then it's a corrupted .plist which we can deal with.

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