Beta 3 and Mac OSX. Keyboard problems

I have installed beta 3 and Parallels Tools at my MBP and I have some keyboard problems.

M-key is acting like I hit the Show Desktop-button or Alt-Opt+M, Caps Lock works if I tap three times and the F-key works like I use Alt-Opt+F (Find).

I had the same problems before I installed Parallels Tools.

 

For the CAPS key I have the same problem on Beta 3 with Solaris

 

Is the back-slash functional yet?

I can't seem to get it to work on my MacBook. It's making it difficult to type directory paths.

 

backslash and pipe are broken still in beta 3 - for Linux/UNIX users thats almost fatal in a shell

 

I thought it was just me! How am I supposed to parse thorough log files on my RHEL 4.0 VM without a pipe?

Code:

 egrep "me|you|them" /var/log/messages | less 

yeah, that no workie

neither does

Code:

smbclient -U blah \\somehost\someshare

This MBP keyboard mapping needs to be addressed.

 

Hit "fn"

I've seen this, my "f" disappeared and instead brought up a find page in XP.
I pressed "fn" several times and "f" came back to a real "f".

I've also seen the weird caps lock light.

The cat pressed it by accident the other night (you know how they are - wanting to be involved) anyway, the light would not switch off again, despite the actual text shifting between UPPER and lower case correctly.

 

Almost?! It makes it completely unusable in my mind.

 

solution-ish

ssh in to the VM only use the vm window as a console. that is what I do (until it is fixed it is a decent option)

 

My numeric keypad doesnt work. -, +, etc work, but numerals do not.