Questions on A1048 keyboard with 2011 iMac

I am not a fan of the Bluetooth keyboard and started using an older Apple keyboard (model A1048).
Everything seems to work ok except some of the function keys appear to do nothing while other functions such as screen brightness, dashboard etc. work but with different function keys from the BT keyboard. The only thing that appears to be "missing" is the forward, play/pause, and back functions (F7/F8/F9 on the BT KB).
Also no "fn" key.
Any way to map these features to the unused function keys? Any other issues about using the older USB keyboard?

I found a free workaround app called 'SizzlingKeys'.

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I have an imac, and i am in the middle of a project which is on a deadline.
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I don't have that keyboard, but a little searching turned up some folks using that keyboard with there iMac's.
Have a look at this ☞ [Logitech Forum Thread|http://forums.logitech.com/logitech/board/message?board.id=mackb&thread. id=397] to see what other users say.
Also here is the ☞ [Logitech Control Center for Macintosh® OS X|http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/494/3129&cl=us,en] download.
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