Linux user keyboard woes

Got my first Macbook (in fact my first Mac-anything)about a week ago and I'm really enjoying the experience.
However, I'm an affirmed Linux addict and one of the first things I wanted to do was to set things up so I could multiboot OS X and a few of my favourite Linux distros.
While the majority of things went smoothly, what Linux people call the Apple keyboard bug really upset me.
So, if I pick the Linux (Penguin) icon from the rEFIt menu, the Macbook will almost certainly not function at all when I try to make a choice from the subsequent Linux menu.
I was able to partially overcome this problem by using a usb-keyboard (on the advice of other Linux users).
However, as I'll be travelling with my Macbook next week, it won't be as convenient to be resorting to a usb-keyboard to get over this reluctance on the part of the Macbook keyboard.
Can Mac users/experts provide any further information on how best to cope with this difficulty and what plans, if any, are afoot to eliminate it?
Thanks
Paul

I was similar when first starting to use Linux.. possibly because I had problems getting my wifi drivers installed and because I had more time for gaming when I first started playing with Linux than I do now.
However, I decided I'd 'make the switch' some time ago - copied my thunderbird mail and my firefox bookmarks over onto a shared fat32 partition, and started messing around with Arch. I made myself get everything set up - gaim/thunderbird/firefox/whatever else I needed, then just stuck with it and made sure not to reboot into windows for a while. I think I used... maybe KDE at the start, then went to E16 and finally settled just now on xfce; started with a graphical login but I was doing too much fiddling around with ATI's drivers for that to be terribly reliable, so I've recently gone to console-login + startx.
My advice is to just set it up, then force yourself to stay in Linux for a while. Eventually I became more used to this environment than windows, and just having such a powerful command line in comparison makes me use things like cygwin whenever I'm back IN windows now. Recently had to reinstall Windows because of some problem or another, and decided to do a simple, barebones install - nothing but the gaming apps I want.
So yeah... I guess the point of this long-winded reply is to just get yourself booted into an environment you like in Linux, and keep yourself there for a bit. Eventually it'll be like a second home.

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