Since installing Lion my MS keyboard no longer works properly. I'll go back to SL before I'll give up this keyboard.

I'm out of my element here. I've been using Macs for >20 years and this is my first real disappointment. I hurried to install Lion on my MBP and now Quicken won't work . . . and my longterm favorite keyboard (MS Natural Ergonomic 4000) is near useless. Hitting the COMMAND key in conjunction with "P"/"S"/"C"/"W" or any other common shortcut doesn't work. Is there a fix in the future? Has anyone found a way to recover from anything similar? Many thx.

I started a thread on the same topic (sorry):
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15777365#15777365
Some have found that the IntelliType Pro 8.1 64-bit driver does make the keyboard work.

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