New keyboard features on old MacBooks?

Does anyone know a way to use the features of the new MacBook keyboards (i.e. the same ones as the aluminum Apple keyboards) with old MacBooks?

My question, I guess, then, would be if I can reconfigure the function key mapping so that it matches the new aluminum Apple keyboards: F1 and F2 are brightness, F3 is Exposé, F4 is Dashboard, F7-9 are iTunes controls, and F10-F12 are volume.

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Now I bought a new power adapter. The adapters have changed now. The end where you put it into the computer looks now a little bit different. But they told me in the Apple Store that it will also fit my 3 years old Macbook.
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xenchen
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I've been using macs since September now, and there are a number of things I've found infuriating about working on my Macbook...
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Hello
I bought my wife a new MacBook Pro, in setting it up for her, I took her Time Machine external drive to migrate onto the new machine but her old MBP not only was on 10.6, it was my old machine which I was still Administrator for.
i plugged in the external drive to start the migration process after entering her name and username from the old machine which gave me the options on transferring the old data over.
I also unchecked the Administrative end that had my info hoping that ONLY her data, files, etc., would be the ones sent over to her new machine which I wanted her to be the ONLY Administrator for. All went like clockwork until the restart.
Normally the screen should show the username and only need the password but both entries were blank, as in ‘Other’ sign in option available only. I entered her name and password, nothing….used her username and password, nothing. Used my old Administrator name and password, NOTHING!
I tried defaulting to factory settings from the Restore feature but it directs me to notify Apple. I tried in Terminal to change the password, nothing. I tried to boot from MY external drive and it doesn’t recognize it. I tried to even use my external drive which actually has the Mavericks upgrade, nothing!
Basically I can only get the startup screen which isn’t accepting the username/password or the Restore feature which doesn’t offer any options helpful!
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