Thanks Xzin, one further question, were you able to simultaneously press different keys on different X-keys and have them register properly?

While I was on hold the tech tested using shift on a usb keyboard and ps/2 x-keys and it properly upcased a regular character so I was pretty happy about that. I use a lot of shift/control/alt combos all the time.

Regarding multi-lingual programming to the x-keys...the tech had to check. When he came back on the phone he said the ps/2 works great but they are having issues on the usb model. He didn't say exactly which issues. I found I could not get multi-lingual keys into my n52 at all, it always wanted to put ctrl + my numpad key #'s into the programming window. Right now I only have a G15 keyboard but am going to order a multi-lingual keyboard so I can easily program my X-keys.

I was blown away the tech was so helpful, usually you don't see that much customer service anymore.