wine users - Oct 2011 - Partial Keyboard Functionality In Old PC Game (Heavy Gear 2)

Hey folks,

I've been trying to get Heavy Gear 2 (awesome old Activision mech FPS game)
up and running on wine. The game requires Direct X 6, which necessitates that I
run wine configured to Windows version 95 or 98. Everything works fine except
for the fact that SOME, actually the majority of the keys on my (laptop)
keyboard don't work.

To be more specific, all keys seem to work when in the game's various menus.
For example, modifying the control setup is no problem. However, once the actual
game launches only a small subset of the keyboard is responsive (arrow keys,
ESC, TAB, and a few others). If anyone could help me troubleshoot this problem
it would be much appreciated. It is an old retired game, but there is a
nostalgia-steeped crowd of devotees who are currently unable to play it on their
newer Windows machines, and as is often the case, I'm hoping Linux can be
made the solution.

Thanks!

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Here is a link to the full log which goes on to detail how wine seems to settle
on the best match keyboard layout (with some obvious problems):

http://www.mediafire.com/?5mkjs2oxid22ak6