You have a flaued ideia, MS keyboards come with windows only sofware, it wont work on the mac as I do think you know you would need a 3rd party drive to porgram them and its not worth the time,

Not so. I used it on a Mac. It came with software on a CD called IntelliType Pro to remap the keys on the left & right of the spacebar to Apple standard. You can also download the latest version of the software from Microsoft. Here's a link to the software http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/download/DownloadResult.aspx?category=MK&type=Keyboard&name=SKU-NKP01&os=mac104x57&lang=en