G4 DA can't detect new Aluminum Keyboard

I just got a refurbished Aluminum Keyboard off ebay (MB110LL/A) and it won't detect in either my Power Mac or my CRT iMac. I even plugged it into my wife's XP laptop and it detected it, bu couldn't install the driver. Is there a setting I need to change to get this going or did I just get a defective one?

Well, that doesn't happen with this keyboard. I have a windows keyboard that does that, when I plug it in, it says that it can't detect the keyboard and to press the button to the right of the shift key to try and detect it. That doesn't happen with the aluminum keyboard. And it still shows up as "vend_device" under the system profiler, which is just weird.

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