How do I enable the Mac keys in windows XP?

I recently bought a new Mac keyboard with a num pad. Before that I was using a normal mac keyboard. I cannot remember if I changed the drivers or any settings before, but my old mac keyboard could lower and increase volumes using the assigned buttons, as with the increase and lower brightness buttons. Holding down the "fn" key would make it the F11, F12 buttons and so on.
However, when I use my new Mac keyboard, when i press the increase volume button, it's registered as F12, same for the other buttons. Holding down the "fn" key makes no difference. I've tried changing the keyboard preference in the bootcamp control panel, but this only affects my old keyboard, and makes no difference to my new keyboard.
I'm using Windows XP on an iMac.
All help and suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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