My opinion of a what a _proper_ workable keyboard is one without a capslock key, and the CTRL key in it's place where it should be, the backslash key should be in the right place which is below backspace and above ENTER/RETURN. The " and @ keys are only the wrong way round on an MS keyboard.
Bare in mind Ruth, that MS does EVERYTHING differently. I am especially reminded of this as I reboot our AV and SMTP server for the 3rd time today on my "Tomy's My First Server Farm 2003".
Mac's have quite a nice unixish keyboard layout with no numlock key which is marvellous.
Rich