Keyboard Shorcuts Not Responding

[Dev Tugnait]

I have gnome2.12 running with dbus on FreeBSD 6.0-Release, my keyboard
shortcuts worked fine I had F1,F2,F3 respectively for sound. Something
happened i don't know what I did not upgrade or change anything as of I
know and my shortcuts wont work anymore. Here is my
~/.gconf/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings/%gconf.xml 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
        <entry name="email" mtime="1131734488" type="string">
                <stringvalue>F8</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="home" mtime="1131206585" type="string">
                <stringvalue>F4</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="screensaver" mtime="1131727249" type="string">
                <stringvalue>F5</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="volume_up" mtime="1131734411" type="string">
                <stringvalue>F1</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="volume_down" mtime="1131734410" type="string">
                <stringvalue>F2</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="volume_mute" mtime="1131734407" type="string">
                <stringvalue>F3</stringvalue>
        </entry>
</gconf>

Try and launch Email with F8 no response, but the metacity shortcuts
work alt+function. This is just boggling my mind. I moved my.gconf to
see if it was my gconf being an issue and started X; set shortcuts they
worked fine. Once i replaced it back with my .gconf they don't work so i
am sure its some setting problem that has come about. If someone can let
me know how do i try and tackle this much would be appreciated.

I tried gconftool-2
--recursive-unset /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings

It removed all the settings I reset the shortcuts still no go.

Thank You
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