New wired keyboard, swapped key functionality?

hi -
I just replaced my keyboard for my iMac Intel Core Duo 10.6.8, 2GHz with the standard wired one. The aluminum keyboard is v 0.74, Apple made. The orignal died.
I used a Dell board for a bit, and used Sys Prefs > Keyboard to swap the OPT & CMD keys. Now I have a new wired Apple keyboard, and the system won't recognize it as an Apple board, and the OPT / CMD keys will not return to heir original roles.
I did these things:
1) sys prefs: reset default for keyboard command keys
2) sys prefs: swapped OPT & CMD key functions, didn't respond.
3) repaired disk permissions
I don't know what to toss as preferences that will influence the keyboard.
Any suggestions, please?
thanks.

thanks, but it didn't change anything.
I've also tried restarting after removing the system preference .plist as well as the keyboard layout .plist. Neither of these worked.
I tried swapping out the keyboard and mouse with a friend's and that did not change anything.
I've updated all OS software and repaired all permissions using Disk Utility.
Perhaps something is creating a conflict, but I haven't a clue as to what at this point.

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