New Keyboard - F11/F12 no longer controlling volume

After a less-than-ideal encounter with a cup of coffee, we've had to replace our aluminum wired keyboard.  Went to the apple store, bought what appears to be the exact same keyboard, except now F11/F12 no longer control volume as it did with the old keyboard (F12 brings up dashboard). 
I've searched around, and it appears that I'm not the only one to have had this problem, but none of the proposed solutions seem to be working.  Holding "fn" while hitting F11/F12 doesn't restore their old function, checking the "Use all F1, F2 etc. keys as standard function keys" checkbox in System Preferences>Keyboard doesn't fix it, and I tried downloading a recommended keyboard software update and was told that the version already installed on my computer is newer.  I'm running OS X Leopard (10.5.8) which I believe is up to date.
Any ideas?

Hello,
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