Voice Over Key Command Not working.

I have a MacBook pro with Intel. I recently installed Leopard and was fooling around with voice over. I was able to turn on voice over via CommandfnF5 but was not able to turn it off via this key combination which you are supposed to be able to do. I found to Command+F5 turns voice over off. Is this problem documented anywhere? Is it just my computer? Let me know.

New Imac 10.5.1 This seems to be related to my own problem. That is in the area of Control/Function Keys. They dont work as should(ie Ctrl-f2 highlight menu). But if I activate VoiceOver(Cmd-f5) they start working, additionally the apple menu shows 5 extra duplicated/additional items.( Mac OS X Software/Force Quit Safari/Restart/Shut Down/Log Out user).
Changing the keyboard to an older one gets the Ctrl-f2 command working as expected.
Applecare's computers had the same problem so it is OS issue.

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