keyboard map trouble debian (mepis)

I'm trying to use mepis with a Norwegian keyboard. I have upgraded to mep3.3.2 and debian testing, i.e kde 3.3.4
--everything works except dvdplaying (doesn't matter, I have to use win for TV anyway) and more annoyingly the keyboard map refuses to behave itself.
I've tried many times to set locale and keyboard map to Norwegian (locale no_NO keyboard no_latin1 --trivial in debian). But mepis insists on resetting the keyboard to "rw" every time, this results in a us keyboard, apparently
--which is useless..
I have tried many times to use Mepis OS center to fix this, making sure changes were saved. Didn't help. It was still wrong again at next boot.

Anyone seen this problem and solved it?

mepis has a program which sets the keyboard at boot, /sbin/mekb
This is apparently hardcoded to set keymap to rw. I deleted it and now it stopped changing the keyboard at boot but some chars do not work:
the ones activated by Alt Gr + a number , for example Alt Gr + 2 is supposed to give @ but nothing happens when these are pressed

Anyone know why this happens?
Could i uninstall and reinstall some packages?

update: the problem possibly was a mistake in entering the keymap in the X config file.
Hard to say 'cause I reinstalled the system. Just as well because the upgrade to kde 3.4 caused some problems, f.ex the scanner sometimes being recognized, sometimes not, 'no sane installed' or something, though sane and every possible prog, driver and library was installed.
I prefer old software and a system that works.

Now i have set the system locale to no_NO, I'll see if mekb now works as intended. If it resets it to rw and gives me a us keyboard now it's certain to be at fault, now all the configs are correct.

I made sure everything was correct and put mekb back into /sbin.
It changed the keyboard back to us(eless).
So here MEPIS have contributed a piece of software that sucks big time.

mekb went to /dev/null --> no problem, you get an error message at boot but the keyboard works!!!!