Keyboard missing keys or not correct function.

my keyboards are mess up, esp the sign keys, it is not in correct when you type it. pls help me restore this, do i need to buy a new key board?

Hi,
If you mean the characters shown when you use the row above QWERTY that can be numbers and Characters it can be a question of which English version you have set up.
In System Preferences > Language an Text >Keyboard Preferences Button I have both British and US set up.
Most of the time is uses the British Set (As in !@£$%^&*()_+ ) Modifying keys also change these.
Note Shift + 3 is the British £ (pound) and Shift 4 is the US Dollar sign.
If I Switch it becomes
Shift 3 become the # symbol (which is ALT 3 on the British layout)
8:22 pm Sunday; February 2, 2014
 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
Message was edited by: Ralph Johns (UK)

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