Using Apple compact keyboard with pre-10.5.6 OS version?

Hello,
I was considering to purchase one of those new compact keyboards (the wired one), but was a bit put off to see it requires 10.5.6 or newer?! I presume that's either a documentation glitch, or if not, just how many keys are there with a function that requires a specific driver? Anything to do with the 'Fn' key, by chance?
Thanks,
René

I'll contribute (part of) an answer myself.
I didn't find an occasion to go try a keyboard at a shop, and in any case I'd not have wanted to buy a French keyboard, very likely the only version they'd have in stock and/or be willing to sell. So, I set out to order one online, hesitating between the (supposedly compatible) wireless and wired versions. I finally balked at the number of batteries to use in the wireless ones, and ordered a wired.
Well, it works. All the keys but one work, except of course for the special functions except the eject key. That's about what I'm used to with my full, external, white-keys-in-transparent-plastic keyboards. So that's the good news.
The bad news is that the one key that doesn't work is the Fn key. Not before and not after installing the keyboard updater (which btw. gave messages about extensions not being updated because already present in a newer version). So, I have no Delete, no PageUp, PageDown, Home and End keys. And this is annoying for serious text entry (for which I got the keyboard!)).
Can anyone here please confirm from personal experience that the Fn key is functional on laptops? I'd guess (hope) that key doesn't send a different code in the wired and wireless versions, so either the key is dead on my keyboard, or it's one of those keys the systems only supports a single one of? But in that case, the one on the wireless keyboard shouldn't be functional either, should it now?
(a Logitech doc that came with a recently ordered trackball mentioned that some keys on they keyboards don't work if you've already got an [Apple] keyboard connected ... inevitably the case on a laptop!)

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