Wrong keyboard settings

Hello,
I'm useing ARD 3.1 on a german operating system 10.4.8. On 2 keys on my keyboard, I have a wrong allocation. With "Shift-8" I get an asterisk "*" but I should get a parenthesis "(". The other one is "`", there I get a "+". All other keys comes the right way.
Is everyone in this forum that can confirm this fault or has a solution for this?
Thanks
MacPro, G5, G4   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Hi yamahito,
all settings are exactely the same. And there are only these two keys they don't work correctly. I find out that on these two keys ARD use the keyboardlayout from "US", not that from swiss-german.
I try the follow. Change the keyboard settings on the remote mac to "US". All keys are at the right place. Go back to swiss german. Same as bevore.
For me it looks like a bug in ARD with other keyboard settings than "US".
Any idees?

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