Which heading for posting apple keyboard hardware problems?

I'll apologize in advance, but I'm having a little difficulty locating a forum heading for posting about problems involving the Apple aluminum keyboard hardware. Specifically, I've been getting little electrical shocks once in a while from the keyboard. If someone would kindly directly me to the proper forum heading, I'll post about my problem over there.
Thanks!

Hi nconrads!
Maybe posting in the Using Your Mac Pro Forum, would produce some additional, helpful suggestions.
Others with the same hardware, may be experiencing the same issue.
ali b

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Dear all,
since yesterday I have been experiencing a problem with my T410, which is potentially due to
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Solved!
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Dear all,
thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately, it was not the keyboard. It appears to
be a more serious problem. In fact, since yesterday the laptop does not boot correctly
anymore. The boot process is started, but I only end up with a black screen, and some
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Regards,
mh

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Any 'Power On' button for the Apple keyboard?
It is possible to boot the Mac G5 without pressing its rear power button? There is a handy 'Power On' button for the Apple Keyboard named 'i-Cue' (see below), but it no longer works with the newer Macs (G5 and Mactel).
A shame that Apple removed the power button of their keyboards years ago. So, what I am looking for is something similar to this, but working with the new Macs:
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http://www.lindy.com/uk/productfolder/03/32/32871/index.php
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Exactly. Bad translations and the lack of application-updates were the main reasons I originally switched to US English versions years and versions ago. Unfortunately I need to use Swedish localized versions at work so I still see the lousy translations.
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Hi(Bonjour)!
Everyone know the problem of losy keyboard layout when Final Cut is used with foreight language keyboard. We loose the COMMAND-Q shorcut.
As PieroF suggested in many posts in final cut express forum, there is a workaround:
"+I just installed Leopard and I ran into this keyboard shortcut problem.+
+I can confirm that:+
+a. the problem exists also with the Italian keyboard (in addition to other languages, as pointed by other posters)+
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+It's a workaround, it's not convenient (I'd better have this bug fixed), but apparently you have to apply it only once for each system startup.+
Piero "
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sematson wrote:
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