New Aluminium Keyboard Vol/play/pause etc buttons wont work

Hello everyone, thank you for your time.
I'm screaming at my new keyboard, I bought another Apple Aluminium Wireless keyboard to replace my previous one from 2007 that essentially went nuts after the last update.....I couldnt use the up and down arrows, the shift key would "hold itself down" etc.
This new one wont let me use its play/pause, volume mute, down, and up etc buttons....I've remapped several Expose functions and Dashboard to work right, but you cant do anything for the audio control buttons....?
This is too much for me, I'm very angry at this odd problem. It seems SO simple, it should just work like my previous keyboard did....
I cant handle not having control of my iTunes music.... I could keep BOTH my Apple keyboards on and use one for play pause etc, and the other for everything else.....
I have a hint for what the problem might be, it seems this keyboard shows up as the "old" "fat white and clear plastic wireless keyboard", perhaps that keyboard didnt have the same functions as the Aluminium? When it disconnects from my Mac for example, I dont get correct "aluminium keyboard connection lost" side on icon, I get one of the larger older plastic keyboard....
I think this is the problem, that this keyboard identifies as the very old plastic model.....
Im going nuts over this very simple function of a keyboard....my last keyboard blew up after the update....ok, so I have to shell out another $120 NZD for a new keyboard...ok....I'm an Apple fan, I'll choke on my pride, and when it finally arrives, from Australia....it wont control iTunes like I do several times a day....
Can anyone help me? I tried using the firmware updates but it seems like it didnt even identify the keyboard...it showed nothing in the detection box....the keyboard was paired, probably showing up as another model of keyboard.....
Very annoying!
Thank you very much for your help. I hope you have a great day.

alright its not doing it anymore after a restart. I think it was from plugging in a Logitech wireless mouse keyboard combo but i didn't use the keyboard so i didnt calibrate it. Sorry for the useless post.
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