Ok, fine, you've got these extra keys that double up on the functions of the F-keys, but for god's sake why isn't it defaulted to F-key functionality instead of the damn office/media keys!?

I'd say 90% of the users actually prefer the media keys to the f-keys. But those keyboards sure should come with an option to set which behavior should be the default (preferably through a hardware button on the keyboard, so that we wouldn't have to install any drivers ).