try rebooting. after that, nose around in the keyboard & international/languages preferences to see if something is amiss. -bill On May 22, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Paul Simpson wrote: > My wife has a MAC running “MAC OS X Panther Ver 10.3.9”. I’m fairly > knowledgeable regarding IBM / Windows PCs BUT no clue about MAC > problems. Her MAC’s been working fine for the past several years > but recently she’s got a consistent problem with her keyboard. When > she strikes the Q key she gets an A. This happens with numerous > other keys. SO I went out and bought her a replacement keyboard. > BUT when I connected the new keyboard and checked it out, we get > the exact same errors. Needless to say I returned the new > keyboard. Any thoughts on how I go about fixing the problem??????????? > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 4098 (20090522) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies William Scammell bill @ wscd.biz vox: 781-956-3548 fax: 978-594-5290 Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of business.