J-Pac problems.. again. grrr!

[keyamon]

i just got a Matrox graphics card and installed it in this MAME PC i'd previously setup, i altered the rez, rebooted, linked it all up to my cab and it loaded up in to MAMEWAH fine though my arcade monitor.. i played a couple of games, and they looked and worked perfect.. thank god i thought.. i went back to the mamewah menu switched to DAPHNE tried to launch Dragons Lair and it all just locked up with a green screen.
so i re-booted the PC and was then confronted by a "keyboard failure" message!!!
shut down again, plugged in the keyboard directly, dissabled error messages in bios, re-set it all back up and tried again. it boots in to windows then mamewah but neither the controls or the keyboard work (unless i plug it in without the J-Pac!!) and it's not like i plugged anything in wrong ever!, i just rebooted the PC!!
after a few re-boots i managed to get the test utility to work in Notepad (ctrl + Alt + p) . i ran the test mode and it said:-
 
*pressed or shorted switches shown below*
1 sw 2 = LALT      2 sw 2 = S
 
it gives this on both the mame and alt settings. i tried re-programing and it gave the same results.

i even once got a game to load by pressing down on the P1 joystick
i pressed tab, went in to config the controls for that game and when i pressed a new button almost all the controls registerd a input like
"space n space not backspace"
er... WTF kinda button press is that!?!? and all i did was re-boot the PC 

[keyamon]

plugged it in to another PC to test.

in notepad the results from button presses "look" ok, as i presume the second letter on some of them is the shifted letter.

e.g.

2 sw 1  = a         
1 right = rght   x   
start 2 = 2      esc
1 sw 1  = lctl   z 

although on both player 1 and 2 the second button doesnt work, and they match up with the test results i posted above

*pressed or shorted switches shown below*
1 sw 2 = LALT      2 sw 2 = S

[SirPeale]

Sure you hooked all the buttons up correctly?  To NO instead of NC?