Function Keys in Third Party Keyboards

My alluminum extended Mac keyboard went on the fritz after three years, though I admit I may have been cleaning it incorrectly. Anyway, I bought a third party generic keyboard that is more Mac like than Windows like, and it's working pretty well except that most of the funcion keys do not work. I can't get Play, Previous, or Forward for instance. Volume works and a couple of the Mission Control buttons work as well. Other functions such as Show Desktop were reassigned to shortcuts like ^↓. I tried adding function keys for menu items in iTunes and restarting, but the keys just beep at me when I press them. I tried adding a modifier key but no effect. I've been restarting through the troubleshooting but have not otherwise reset anything (pretty much just working through Keyboard Preferences).
Not too bad really, but it would be nice to get some functionality back into the function keys. But maybe this is as good as it gets? Thanks.

You cannot get it be exactly like an Apple keyboard, but you can adjust it as much as possible:
- reversing the order of keys in sys prefs/keyboard/modifier keys (you may modify 4 such keys)
- add 3rd party utilitites for monitor brightness (Shades: http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/shades ) and sound (I understand you have sound, others do not, if using a non-Apple keyboard: PTHVolume)
- DoubleCommand to make other changes, e.g. right Enter key to work as Option key (useful for some notebooks, mainly)

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