Keyboard x1 carbon - use of alt key

I have a US keyboard. I would like to be able to produce two symbols, the € and the £. I have found that Alt 5 (but only the Alt key on the right of the spacebar) produces €, but have not found anything similar for the £. My questions:
1) Can I produce the £ in a similar manner?
2) Why do the two Alt keys function differently?
3) What is the purpose of the Left Alt key?
Thanks and regards.

I had major problems with the 10.4.3 update on my iMac, and so had a lot of restarts into that startup screen, and it always seemed to work. I was somewhat surprised that it worked, but it does work. I'm not sure at what point the computer looks for the wireless keyboard, maybe there's two checks, one for actual pairing, but also an earlier check to see if any special keys are being pressed.
Thnk about it, you may need to reset PRAM, or put the machine into Firewire terminal mode, and other possible key press start ups. They all work for me.
Is there a chance that your batteries are borderline, and the keyboard is putting itself to sleep?

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