Spaces doesn't recognize keyboard shortcuts!!

hey everyone.
I had my spaces setup to use F11 keyboard shortcut and dashboard is F12.
then yesterday.. spaces just stoped working.. dashboard still works. i have
disabled and enabled spaces again.. switched to F12.. still nothing. has anyone
had a similar problem that got figured out? dashboard works with F11 so it's
not a dead key.. I'm going to restart now..
rob

I have a similar problem on my PPC G5 only, my MBP (intel) works fine.
None of my F8 - F12 keys work, spaces is enabled, all keyboard shortcuts are assigned. I was on the phone to apple for a while working with a slightly confused (the reason may become apparent) tech who eventually solved my problem by resetting the PRAM, although, this only worked for about 2 hours.
The only thing we found was that in my preferences for keyboard shortcuts for expose, dashboard and spaces i have two options that i can set. One is for example F8, the other I can select any mouse button from Secondary through to Button 34. Which he didn't have on his computer. He could only select the F8 option...
Although i have discovered that the mouse options come from having a logitech wireless mouse (either MX revolution to the PPC or the Nano to my MBP..although the MBP keyboard short cuts still work).
So in summary, my keyboard shortcuts don't work on ONLY my PPC..rather annoying.

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