You mentioned wanting to get the hotkeys working. I spent a lot of
time working on this with my toshiba laptop. I was never successful,
but in my efforts, I have quite a few bookmarks with various solutions
for different laptops. If you post the make and model of your
computer, I'll cross check and see if I have any specific workarounds
saved (I know you probably already mentioned it somewhere, but I don't
know where)...