I can take a shot at it: jhsimpson, at one point, you say
I have never seen a key assignment show up on the right hand side of the Key Map area whereas I see on your pic that you not only have them displayed, but one is in red for some reason......
Is this still the case? Do you see the yellow title text "Commands" and "Keys" as indicated in Buddye's pic? If there seem to be no entries under "Keys", are you still able to click in the region of the "Keys" column opposite the command entry OUTSIDETOG, and see the message appear below "Polling Input Devices"?
Do I understand it correctly that you get that far, but don't see the button acknowledged when you press it? Are you able to get any other keyboard key or contoller button to be acknowledged by the polling routine at that point?
...How many buttons are on your devices in total? It may be that you are hitting a limit. BoB1 seemed to only recognize 9 buttons on controller devices. I don't know what the limit is for BoBII. When a controller button is acknowedged, it is usually shown in the form A1_b5, where the first pair is the controller, which in the default listing on my menu seem to be able to range from A1 to A4, and the second pair is the button. I can only see b1 to b8 coded on the default alternatives on my menu. That suggests that you can have four controllers, but perhaps only 8 or 9 buttons on each.