None of my games work in Win XP via Boot Camp

I have the 20" iMac (MA200LL/A i believe is the model) and it has the 2GHz Intel Core Duo, 1.5 GB RAM, and 250 GB Hard Drive with Radeon X1600. I have installed OS X Leopard and through the embedded Boot Camp software, have installed Windows XP Home SP2. It runs great except I cannot play games, and SOME videos are displayed wierd. (Mostly streaming videos, but some videos I have on my hard drive don't work either) The video problem was solved my turning off Windows Video Acceleration. However that made it so I couldn't watch them in full screen. Now my games when loaded up, are glitchy right off the bat, flashing and such. And usually I can't get past the Menu. Unreal Tournament Game of the Year Edition plays, however the movement is SLOWWWW. The game Eragon is the only one so far to play smoothly. All others are not working. I have installed the latest ATI drivers for the Mobility Radeon X1600. Still don't work.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! I have JUST switched to Mac and this iMac was my first purchase. And I am afraid that if I cannot get my games to work I am going back to PC only. I DON'T WANT THAT!
Thanks
Kero

The key board issues can be alleviated via a keyboard mapper, just google it. As for right click, this utility will make it happen for you http://tinyurl.com/gbmmh
Brightness should work via a icon in the windows tool tray (next to clock). There should be a icon that looks like a screen, click it and it'll allow you to increase/decrease screen brightness. That should have been installed with the boot camp driver disk you created. Volume same thing, use the sound icon in the task bar.
CTRL-ALT-DEL can be accessed via right clicking the task bar and chosing task manager.
You can't two finger scroll however. If you're not doing games or video editing in windows you may wish to get parallels which will allow you to run XP while in OS X and most everything works and quite well, including two finger scrolling.
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