ITunes and laptop media controls

I have a Toshiba satellite laptop, with media controls (play/pause, back forward and stop). I cannot find a hotkey editor which allows me to change what the keys does, and the media controls only seem to work with windows media player (eww) and not with itunes. Is there any way I can make them work with iTunes? Is there any way to setup any global hotkeys for iTunes?

I have the same problem with my HP laptop media controls. In iTunes 7.1.x, the volume keys on my laptop double registered whenever iTunes was open and not focused on the program, so the volume would go up/down twice at one push and when pressing mute, it would actually mute then unmute as you released the button. However, the play/pause, stop, ff/rev keys worked fine.
I've decided to go back to 7.1.1 until there's a fix, but I don't know how to do it without losing my settings. If anyone can help, please let me know! This is my original post for reinstallation: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=990100&tstart=0

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hey, thanks for the reply. I don't know to be perfectly honest. When I close the lid without any music playing it sleeps fine. How could I check?
So basically I pressed the power button and pressed sleep. The laptop turned off and the little white light turned on no problem. I did the same thing with closing the lid and it went to sleep no problem. (Can you confirm that when the little white light is on it means the laptop is sleeping)??.
I then had itunes playing and pressed the power button and when i pressed sleep the music paused then 6 seconds later it went to sleep. I then had itunes playing and closed the lid and the music kept on playing even though the white light was on.
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