Remapping keys to be like a PC keyboard

I have an Apple bluetooth keyboard and works well. I use Citrix & MS's Remote Desktop a fair bit to login to WinTel machines.
One anoying thing is to map certain keys to be a PC equalivant. Primarily I would like to map the "Help" (or F14) key to be the PC keyboard equalivant of the "Insert" key. Does anyone know of any software to do this?
Thanks, Toni.

I have a similar request. I am so used to a PC having converted to a Mac here at home but still using a PC at work. I would like to have the navigation keys to be the same whether using a PC, Mac or Virtual PC (on the Mac). Specifically, I would like the "Home" and "End" keys to move the curser to the beginning and end of a line respectively (currently Word on the Mac does this). I would like the "Ctrl" for the cutting, copying, pasting (in combination with the x, c, & v) rather than the Command Key. Also, I need to have the Ctrl in combination with the left, right arrows to move the curser to the left & right a complete word. Of course I would like to be able to do this for every application. Any suggestions out there?
Thanks,
Bruce

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http://www.shadowlab.org/Software/spark.php
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