Nice solution - thinking outside the box. Do you have any other neat registry hacks like this?
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,2e,e0,3b,00,30,e0,3c,00,\
00,00,00,00