Keyboard Volume Keys: half-steps? Quarter Steps?

Is it possible to change the amount of increase / decrease the keyboard volume keys cause? Right now, tapping F11 or F12 just once turns the volume up or down a LOT more than I want it to. Subtle changes are impossible.
Is there any way for me to change this so that pressing F11 and/or F12 only changes the volume a little?

Jalpuna wrote:
There was a problem with my services. I had to restart before I could use them (I was just getting the "building" error. Odd!)
I've got everything working now except for one thing. In System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services, I see the new services I added in the list, but when I add a hotkey for them, it disappears as soon as I press return or click outside of the little text-input box.
ah, i forgot about this. you are trying to make a shortcut involving and F-key, right? I know that for many people (myself included) it's impossible to make a service shortcut using an F-key. I get the same exact result as you when I try. but this only concerns services. however, other posters claimed that it works ok for them. so it's something of a mystery but looks like a strange bug of some sort in SL. I managed to add a service shortcut with an F-key but it was much too tricky and involved first adding such a shortcut for something else and then copying the relevant entries in the plists containing those shortcuts.

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